Patch tagging/classification

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

I don't remember if I already suggested this feature, or if it has been
suggested in the past already. If that's the case, then sorry for the
duplicate.

Over at the Buildroot project, we often handle a fairly long queue of
patches in our patchwork, currently around 350+ patches. One thing that
I'm missing is a way of triaging/tagging the patches, like which ones
are for the current release, which ones are clearly for the next
release, etc. Each project probably has different
tagging/classification needs.

Wouldn't it be useful to create a tagging system which allows to
associate an arbitrary list of tags to each patch. This could even
replace the delegation feature by adding special tags like
"delegate:<account>" to delegate the patch to a certain user. This
would also have the benefit of allowing the delegation to more than one
user, by simply having several "delegate:<account>" tags on the same
patch.

This of course should come with filters in the web UI, in order to
filter patches depending on the tags that they have.

Thoughts?

Side question: has the patchwork project considered participating to
the Google Summer of Code? I believe patchwork is really a good project
for GSoC students: it's using a technology that is worth learning,
getting into the internals of patchwork is not too complicated, etc.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com