Hi Shai,

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM Brandes, Shai <shaibran@amazon.com> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> The failure status appears to be due to an issue applying the patch to the
> release notes RTS file.
> We suspect that the patch may have been applied to the incorrect DPDK tree.
> Could you advise if there is any specific metadata we should be using to
> determine the correct tree for applying the patch?
>

Here is the script which should be used to determine the tree to apply the
patchseries to:
https://git.dpdk.org/tools/dpdk-ci/tree/tools/pw_maintainers_cli.py

Even better than using that directly, though, is using this create series
artifact script, which will handle running pw_maintainers_cli.py and
applying the series from patchwork for you:
https://git.dpdk.org/tools/dpdk-ci/tree/tools/create_series_artifact.py

The process create_series_artifact.py uses is:

1. Try to apply to the tree suggested by pw_maintainers_cli.py. If
successful, proceed.
2. If there was an apply failure in 1, try to apply again, this time on
main. If successful, proceed.
3. If 1 and 2 failed, indicate that there was an apply failure.

Also, if your automation failed to apply the patch, the best thing is to
report "_apply patch failure_" in your test_report email, and bail out of
running testing (so don't run meson test in this case).

And then as a separate matter, I see you mentioned the same sort of .rst
apply failure situation was seen on a patch you submitted recently. We do
not currently have a strategy for mitigating this, but perhaps we should
develop one. Do you have any ideas? I can also raise this discussion during
the CI meeting.

Thanks Shai.