Feature request: delegating patches to others than maintainers

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:49:43 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> escreveu:

> 2015-07-21 10:45, Thomas Petazzoni:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:17:56 +0000, Finucane, Stephen wrote:
> > > Finally, would the non-maintainers be able to set state to any state.
> > > In Gerrit, the submitter of a patch can abandon or rebase the patch,
> > > but can't merge it unless they're a maintainer/core dev. We don't
> > > have to worry about rebasing or merging, but setting the status to
> > > Accepted is basically the same thing, right? Can we assume the
> > > assigned delegate won't update with any misleading information? :)
> > 
> > Depends which level of control you want. Since maintainers are in
> > charge of delegating ton non-maintainers, you could assume they would
> > delegate to trusted persons so that having those persons change the
> > state to any state would not be a problem. But I can understand that
> > some projects may want a tighter control on that.
> 
> It may be mitigated by having the history of the changes per patch.

Yes, a history of changes is important when there are more than one
maintainer on a project.

I would say that, if a patch is modified by someone that it is not the
author or one of the maintainers, an email should be sent to the 
maintainers for them to be aware of the status change.

> 
> > However, patchwork's beauty is its simplicity. If it becomes too
> > complicated with myriad of config options, it would lose a bit of its
> > beauty.
> 
> +1
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