[PATCH] Fix issue with delegation of patch via REST API

Bjorn Helgaas helgaas at kernel.org
Wed Sep 25 05:12:29 AEST 2019


On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 09:45:16AM +0100, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 15:39 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 07:30:46PM +0100, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> > > There have been reports of people being unable to delegate patches to
> > > themselves, despite being a maintainer or the project to which the patch
> > > is associated.
> > > ...

> > I tried the instance at https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pci/list/
> > to see if it was new enough to work without this fix.  But it also
> > fails, slightly differently:
> > 
> >   $ git config -l | grep "^pw"
> >   pw.server=https://patchwork.kernel.org/api/1.1
> >   pw.project=linux-pci
> >   pw.token=...
> > 
> >   $ git-pw patch update --delegate helgaas 11151519
> >   More than one delegate found: helgaas
> > 
> > Is this another manifestation of the same bug or something else?
> 
> This is a different issue and, unlike the other one, is more feature
> than bug. This is happening because the search for a particular user is
> returning multiple matches. We match on username, first name, last name
> and email, so I imagine you have multiple user accounts on the instance
> and there might be a conflict between an email address of one account
> and a username of another? (Let me know if this isn't the case). The
> easy solution is to use a more specific match. I'd suggest just using
> the email address associated with your user account ([1] suggests this
> is 'bhelgaas at google.com'). We could also support lookup by user ID
> (which would guarantee a single match) but I haven't added that to git-
> pw yet since it didn't seem that usable.

Still no workey.  I'm cursed.  The web "Delegate to" dropdown menu
includes "bhelgaas" and my profile seems to be associated with
"bhelgaas" (at least, that's the name in the upper right of the web
page when I'm logged in).

  $ git-pw patch update --delegate bhelgaas 11151519
  {u'delegate': [u"User 'bhelgaas' is not a maintainer for project 'Linux PCI development list'"]}
  $ git-pw patch update --delegate bhelgaas at google.com 11151519
  {u'delegate': [u"User 'bhelgaas' is not a maintainer for project 'Linux PCI development list'"]}
  $ git-pw patch update --delegate bjorn at helgaas.com 11151519
  No matching delegates found: bjorn at helgaas.com

https://patchwork.kernel.org/user/ also claims I'm a maintainer for
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pci/list/ and shows both
bhelgaas at google.com and bjorn at helgaas.com as email addresses.

> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pci/


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