Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Add a script to create series artifacts

[Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>]

Adam Hassick <ahassick@iol.unh.edu> writes:

> The process of applying patches and bundling the source code into an
> archive varies across testing labs. Historically, the process for
> applying patches at the Community Lab was not visible to the broader
> community and was inextricable from lab infrastructure. The new script
> introduced in this patch aims to resolve these issues. This script is
> intended to serve as a reference process for creating series artifacts.
> A "series artifact" is an archive containing a copy of the DPDK source
> code with a patch series applied. We perform a test build prior to
> creating the archive as well. At the Community Lab, these archives are
> used for all of our tests. At the time of writing, this script is being
> used in production.
>
> The script depends on the "pw_maintainers_cli" and patch parser scripts
> in the CI repository. It also depends on pygit2 for managing the DPDK
> repository, pyyaml for parsing the configuration file, and git_pw for
> pulling in the series as a patch file.
>
> This script does not implement handling of the dependency labels. There
> is an ongoing effort to get this implemented into Patchwork as a
> feature.
> ---

Marged - thanks!