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Re: Clean up patchwork.sourceware.org
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:19:30 -0500
- Subject: Re: Clean up patchwork.sourceware.org
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On 11/27/2014 12:08 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a reminder to everyone to clean up their committed/rejected
>> patches from the patchwork.sourceware.org queue. The queue is now 4
>> pages long!
>
> Cleaning up entries for other people's patches is a good idea as well -
> especially as occasional contributors are less likely to ping regularly
> and part of the point of patchwork is to stop patches getting lost. (Of
> course reviewing old patches you find and feel competent to review helps
> as well.)
>
> If there are several versions of the same patch there, and it's not yet
> in, all except the last should be marked Superseded. I think "Not
> Applicable" is right for a patch to something else (e.g. Linux kernel) on
> which libc-alpha was CC:ed.
I cleanup as often as I can, for example marking Alan's binutils patch
as Not Applicable, and others as committed when committed.
It still seems like we're loosing ground, but I think that's because
we actually don't have enough reviewers :-)
Cheers,
Carlos.