What's missing from our changelogs [LWN.net]

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 24, 2013 23:02 UTC (Wed) by aliguori (guest, #30636)
Parent article: What's missing from our changelogs

The chain of Signed-off-by is there just not in the expected way provided that maintainers 1) set no-ff and 2) add a Signed-off-by to the merge commit.

If you do that (and we do in QEMU) then you can walk the full history.

The practical problem with Reviewed-by/Tested-by is it's a pain in the ass to add them as a maintainer. I have some scripts to do this given an mbox and have been planning to generalize but haven't gotten around to it. I suspect a few other people have similar scripts floating around.

The script I use is available at http://git.codemonkey.ws/cgit/mbox-filter.git

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What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 25, 2013 3:07 UTC (Thu) by stressinduktion (subscriber, #46452) [Link] (1 responses)

Have a look at patchwork[0]. It is used by e.g. the netdev[1] folks. It handles commit-tags, makes it easy for contributors to follow their patches or invites one to just browse the queue to do review.

[0] http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/
[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 25, 2013 3:52 UTC (Thu) by aliguori (guest, #30636) [Link]

patchwork is nice but doesn't handle threads and cannot automatically handle commit status and resubmissions. I have more scripts to handle that too.