The open-source generation gap

I did take a shortcut or two: everything is explained fantastically well in Damien's blog which is the only reason why I pointed at it - not because he implemented everything from scratch.

The general clumsiness and brittleness of automating populating a patch and review database from a mailing-list is relatively clear when reading Damien, especially for anyone having used any vaguely modern code review tool like Github. Comparing it to for instance Gerrit (not a very high bar...), the only area where patchwork might be barely ahead of Gerrit is around the concept of a series: a very recent addition I believe.