Re: Adding Series Dependency to Patchwork

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

Hello,

Yes I still think it is a valuable work to achieve.
If Aaron agrees, I wish you can complete this feature upstream.

Thank you


04/04/2024 15:50, Patrick Robb:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Adam explains more completely in the preceding email, but he has
> talked with the patchwork project maintainer, and determined the
> needed next steps to do work adding depends-on support to patchwork
> server. And he provides an estimate (35-50 hours of his time) for
> adding this feature to pw.
> 
> What we want is a community opinion on using Community Lab resources
> (our developer time) towards this effort on patchwork project. I'm
> going to you, because you were the person who originally raised the
> depends on issue and adding this support to pw server.
> 
> Given his time estimate, do you endorse this work, or do you prefer we
> focus on our SOW items and other community requests which are in queue
> right now? Thanks.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:51 PM Adam Hassick <ahassick@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > There has been a discussion on GitHub between myself and others about
> > adding support for series dependency to Patchwork. This would involve
> > adding the feature to the Patchwork dashboard and git-pw. However, it
> > seems like the maintainer would like us to do much of the required
> > implementation work. I estimate, with a low level of certainty, that
> > it would consume 35 to 50 hours of developer time.
> >
> > The active issue relating to this feature can be found here, as well
> > as the archived one:
> > https://github.com/getpatchwork/patchwork/issues/583
> >
> > Would it be worth it for us here at the Community Lab to contribute
> > upstream to Patchwork? Implementing the feature in the Patchwork
> > project will make our method for defining series dependencies the
> > standard, and it may lift some of the burden of maintaining this
> > feature off of us.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adam Hassick
>