linking revisions of a series

[Florian Fainelli]

On 03/08/2017 05:38 AM, Andy Doan wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had interest in adding support to allow
> patchwork to somehow track revisions of a series? Basically, I'm needing
> to track as series from start to finish and a Series object in patchwork
> currently has no links to related series. I have the following rough
> idea in mind and wanted to get some feedback before getting too deep
> into this.
> 
>  if new series created
>      get list of all series with matching project and submitter
>      if the subject of one is similar to the new series:
>           add some marking (foreign key?) to the new series.
> 
> We'd then have a link-list from start to finish. Is this crazy? Has
> anyone tried something like this already?

I like the idea, and there seems to be at least two ways this could be
helpful:

- statistics on the patch series (how many, time between them, etc. etc.)
- automatic superseding of patches?

Thanks
-- 
Florian