[PATCH 2/2] project: Provide a setting to only consider git send-email patches

Finucane, Stephen stephen.finucane at intel.com
Thu Oct 29 00:45:15 AEDT 2015


> Hi Stephen,
> 
> >> One goal I have is to lower patchwork maintenance (ie limit the
> >> number of fixes we need to do by hand). That's a small improvement
> >> towards that direction.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau at intel.com>
> >
> > I like this idea a lot: I don't think this needs to be a per-project
> > setting, however. There's only one "entry point" for submitting
> > patches - parsemail.py - so a flag on this application would be more
> > than adequate for limiting access. This will remove the need for the
> > database migration. What are your thoughts on adding this flag in
> > place of the project setting?
> 
> This means that patchwork will only work for projects (and
> contributors!) that use git though. I'd prefer we keep patchwork fairly
> VCS-agnostic.
> 
> For the setup on patchwork.ozlabs.org, a flag for parsemail means I'd
> need project-specific configuration outside of the admin system, which
> seems a bit clunky.

So you're suggesting...not including this option anywhere?

Stephen

> Regards,
> 
> 
> Jeremy


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