[PATCH v2 3/6] docs: Resolve some issues with the 'usage' guide
Stephen Finucane
stephen at that.guru
Tue Jan 31 10:04:11 AEDT 2017
The headings in this file were all over the place. Resolve this.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
Fixes: 86100924 ("docs: Provide overview document")
---
docs/usage/overview.md | 132 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 79 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/usage/overview.md b/docs/usage/overview.md
index 6275938..af72092 100644
--- a/docs/usage/overview.md
+++ b/docs/usage/overview.md
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-# Projects
+# Overview
+
+The key concepts or models of Patchwork are outlined below.
+
+## Projects
Projects typically represent a software project or sub-project. A Patchwork
server can host multiple projects. Each project can have multiple maintainers.
@@ -16,11 +20,17 @@ Patchwork instance.
Users are anyone who has created an account on a given Patchwork instance.
-## Maintainers
+### Standard Users
+
+A standard user can associate multiple email addresses with their user account,
+create bundles and store TODO lists.
+
+### Maintainers
-Maintainers are users with permissions to do certain operations that regular
-Patchwork users can't. Patchwork maintainers usually have a 1:1 mapping with a
-project's code maintainers though this is not necessary.
+Maintainers are a special type of user that with permissions to do certain
+operations that regular Patchwork users can't. Patchwork maintainers usually
+have a 1:1 mapping with a project's code maintainers though this is not
+necessary.
The operations that a maintainer can invoke include:
@@ -28,9 +38,13 @@ The operations that a maintainer can invoke include:
- Archive a patch
- Delegate a patch, or be delegated a patch
-# Submissions
+## Submissions
-## Patch
+Patchwork captures three types of mail to mailing lists: patches, cover
+letters, and replies to either patches or cover letters, a.k.a. comments. Any
+mail that does not fit one of these categories is ignored.
+
+### Patches
Patches are the central object in Patchwork structure. A patch contains both a
diff and some metadata, such as the name, the description, the author, the
@@ -38,7 +52,7 @@ version of the patch etc. Patchwork stores not only the patch itself but also
various metadata associated with the email that the patch was parsed from, such
as the message headers or the date the message itself was received.
-## Cover Letter
+### Cover Letters
Cover letters provide a way to offer a "big picture" overview of a series of
patches. When using Git, these mails can be recognised by way of their `0/N`
@@ -47,33 +61,66 @@ not only the various aspects of the cover letter itself, such as the name and
body of the cover letter, but also various metadata associated with the email
that the cover letter was parsed from.
-## Comments
+### Comments
+
+Comments are replies to a submission - either a patch or a cover letter. Unlike
+a Mail User Agent (MUA) like Gmail, Patchwork does not thread comments.
+Instead, every comment is associated with either a patch or a cover letter, and
+organized by date.
-Comments are replies to either patches or cover letter. Unlike a Mail User
-Agent (MUA) like GMail, Patchwork does not thread comments. Instead, every
-comment is associated with either a patch or a cover letter, and organized by
-date.
+## Patch Metadata
-Comments that are not found to be linked with an existing patch or cover letter
-are dropped.
+Patchwork allows users to store various metadata against patches. This metadata
+is only configurable by a maintainer.
-## States
+### States
States track the state of patch in its lifecycle. States vary from project to
project, but generally a minimum subset of "new", "rejected" and "accepted"
will exist.
-## Delegates
+### Delegates
-Delegates are akin to reviewers, in that they are Patchwork users who are
-responsible for both reviewing a patch and setting its eventual state in
-Patchwork. Delegation works particularly well for larger projects where various
-subsystems, each with their own maintainer(s), can be identified.
+Delegates are Patchwork users who are responsible for both reviewing a patch
+and setting its eventual state in Patchwork. This makes them akin to reviewers
+in other tools. Delegation works particularly well for larger projects where
+various subsystems, each with their own maintainer(s), can be identified. Only
+one delegate can be assigned to a patch.
**NOTE:** Patchwork supports automatic delegation of patches. Refer to the
[Autodelegation Guide][doc-autodelegation] for more information.
-# Checks
+### Tags
+
+Tags are specially formatted metadata appended to the foot the body of a patch
+or a comment on a patch. Patchwork extracts these tags at parse time and
+associates them with the patch. You add extra tags to an email by replying to
+the email. The following tags are available on a standard Patchwork install:
+
+- Acked-by:
+
+ For example:
+
+ Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
+
+- Tested-by:
+
+ For example:
+
+ Tested-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
+
+- Reviewed-by:
+
+ For example:
+
+ Tested-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
+
+The available tags, along with the significance of said tags, varies from
+project to project and Patchwork instance to Patchwork instance. The [kernel
+project documentation][ref-kernel-submission] provides an overview of the
+supported tags for the Linux kernel project.
+
+### Checks
Checks store the results of any tests executed (or executing) for a given
patch. This is useful, for example, when using a continuous integration (CI)
@@ -106,14 +153,19 @@ system to test patches. Checks have a number of fields associated with them:
**TODO:** Provide information on building a CI system that reports check
results back to Patchwork.
-# Series
+## Collections
+
+Patchwork provides a number of ways to store groups of patches. Some of these
+are automatically generated, while others are user-defined.
+
+### Series
Series are groups of patches, along with an optional cover letter. Series are
-mostly dumb containers, though they also contain some metadata themselves, such
+mostly dumb containers, though they also contain some metadata themselves such
as a version (which is inherited by the patches and cover letter) and a count
of the number of patches found in the series.
-# Bundles
+### Bundles
Bundles are custom, user-defined groups of patches. Bundles can be used to keep
patch lists, preserving order, for future inclusion in a tree. There's no
@@ -122,35 +174,9 @@ project. A single patch also can be part of multiple bundles at the same time.
An example of Bundle usage would be keeping track of the Patches that are ready
for merge to the tree.
-# Tags
-
-Tags are specially formatted metadata appended to the foot the body of a patch
-or a comment on a patch. Patchwork extracts these tags at parse time and
-associates them with the patch. The following tags are available on a standard
-Patchwork install:
-
-- Acked-by:
-
- For example:
-
- Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
-
-- Tested-by:
-
- For example:
-
- Tested-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
-
-- Reviewed-by:
+### TODO Lists
- For example:
-
- Tested-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
-
-The available tags, along with the significance of said tags, varies from
-project to project and Patchwork instance to Patchwork instance. The [kernel
-project documentation][ref-kernel-submission] provides an overview of the
-supported tags for the Linux kernel project.
+Patchwork users can store a TODO list of patches.
[doc-api]: rest.md
[doc-autodelegation]: delegation.md
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