Re: Adding Series Dependency to Patchwork

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

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 12:15 PM Adam Hassick <ahassick@iol.unh.edu> wrote:

> > If we go with the URL option, does is still required to differentiate as
> > "patch-xxx" or "series-yyy", previously they were different IDs, but
> > with URL can patchwork deduce if it is series or patch? If so this can
> > bring a simplification.
>
> No, you can just paste the URL and the Django URL resolver will figure
> out whether it points at a patch or a series. No need to differentiate
> with the URLs.
>
> That's also true of the message ID option too. There isn't much of a
> point in differentiating patch/series message IDs because series do
> not reliably have an email associated with them.

Sounds good. I want to highlight again for the ci group that all
dependencies will be series dependencies, regardless of whether
"patch-xxx" or "series-yyy" is used. If a patch message id or url is
submitted, it will be mapped to its series url for the dependency.