[PATCH 0/7] Support delegation to non-maintainers

Finucane, Stephen stephen.finucane at intel.com
Wed Sep 9 23:26:38 AEST 2015


> On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 01:59:07PM +0100, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> > Add support for delegating patches to users other than maintainers, as
> > requested on the mailing list:
> >
> >   https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/patchwork/2015-July/001351.html
> >
> > The required change to enable this is actually very small but in order
> > to prevent "a select-box with 1360 users to scroll through" it is
> > necessary to implement some form of autocomplete:
> >
> >   https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/patchwork/2015-July/001355.html
> >
> > This is achieved through use of JQuery UI's autocomplete widget.
> 
> FWIW, my big UI series has another way of doing UI components, using
> bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/), and another way of doing
> autocompletion, using selectize.js
> (http://brianreavis.github.io/selectize.js/)

Indeed it does :) However, I have (possibly unfounded) concerns about the size/mixing of features of that series and subsequently its "mergeability":

  https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/patchwork/2015-August/001415.html

This closes an issue without having to relying on the big UI series getting merged. If the big UI series gets merged first, I'll naturally rework accordingly.

Stephen


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