Re: Adding Series Dependency to Patchwork

[Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu>]

Perfect. Then we will proceed.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:18 AM Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> wrote:
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> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> writes:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > Yes I still think it is a valuable work to achieve.
> > If Aaron agrees, I wish you can complete this feature upstream.
>
> okay by me
>
> > 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
> >>
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