[PATCH 2/4] docs: Document the address/unaddressed comment feature

Daniel Axtens dja at axtens.net
Thu Sep 2 12:14:01 AEST 2021


LGTMed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>

I haven't looked at it quite enough to give it a proper Review but I
don't have any obvious objections.

Kind regards,
Daniel

Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
> ---
>  docs/usage/overview.rst | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git docs/usage/overview.rst docs/usage/overview.rst
> index 273c792a..a58acfa5 100644
> --- docs/usage/overview.rst
> +++ docs/usage/overview.rst
> @@ -71,11 +71,11 @@ 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`
> -subject prefix, e.g. `[00/11] A sample series`. Like patches, Patchwork stores
> -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.
> +patches. When using Git, these mails can be recognised by way of their ``0/N``
> +subject prefix, e.g. ``[00/11] A sample series``. Like patches, Patchwork
> +stores 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
> @@ -181,6 +181,24 @@ system to test patches. Checks have a number of fields associated with them:
>     to Patchwork.
>  
>  
> +Comment Metadata
> +----------------
> +
> +Like patches, Patchwork allows users to store various bits of metadata against
> +comments.
> +
> +Action required
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +.. versionadded:: 3.1.0
> +
> +Patchwork allows users to set an "action required" flag on patch and cover
> +letter comments. This flag can be set by maintainers or by the users submitting
> +the cover letters. Once the submitter has provided the required information,
> +either the submitter or a maintainer can mark the comment as "addressed". This
> +provides a more granular way of tracking work items than patch states.
> +
> +
>  Collections
>  -----------
>  
> -- 
> 2.31.1


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