[oe] Patchwork-Status via email

[Jose Lamego]

On 02/07/2017 04:59 AM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 11:25 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 08:41:14AM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2017-02-06 at 09:10 -0800, akuster808 wrote:
>>>> please drop. this is fixed via a change in master-next.
>>>>
>>>> http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?h=master-next&id=2e83e33c592543045a7761907d8cd62937e1e60d
>>>
>>> Let's see whether the magic keyword works :-)
>>>
>>> [Patchwork-Status: Superseded]
>>>
>>> https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/136794/
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
>>>
>>> The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
>>> I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
>>> represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
>>> on behalf of Intel on this matter.
>>
>> If it was supposed to update status on Patchwork, then it didn't work
>> it's still in "New" state.
> 
> Jose, in your "parsemail: Set patch state from email metadata" patch you
> said that it "allows project maintainers to change a patch status
> directly from an email message".
> 
> Can you clarify who the "project maintainers" are who can use this email
> interface?
> 
Correct, the patch status change through email is available only for
those registered as project maintainers in Patchwork. These are listed
under "About this project" section at the web interface.

> What about this use case here: the original author wants to retract a
> patch. Can he do that via email and/or the web interface?
> 
Patch submitter (and project maintainers) can update status manually
through the web interface.

> I wasn't the original author and probably also no project maintainer, so
> I guess that's why my email had no effect. Can we enable some kind of
> error response for such cases?
> 
Good idea. I've filed a request to track this:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11027

-- 
Jose Lamego | OTC Embedded Platforms & Tools | GDC

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