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How to request a new project on patchwork

Patchwork is a tool to help track patches sent to a mailing list, to make sure they are not lost in the traffic or otherwise overlooked.

To get a new project added to patchwork, please send an email request to support with the following info:

  1. The website with the details about the mailing list (e.g. mailman listinfo page)
  2. The patchwork.kernel.org username of the person (or persons) who will be the project admin in patchwork. If you don't have a username yet, please create one on patchwork.kernel.org.
  3. Patchwork-bot integration details, if desired (see below)

Adding patchwork-bot integration

If you have your git tree on git.kernel.org, you can send a request to support to request patchwork-bot integration. Please provide all of the following info as part of your request:

  1. Refname:state map: (e.g. refs/heads/next:Accepted, refs/heads/master:Mainlined)
  2. Summary to: (e.g. example@kernel.org, example@gmail.com)
  3. Notify submitters?: (yes/no)
  4. (If yes on previous) Get cc'd on notifications? (yes/no)
  5. Auto-supersede series? (yes, within NN days/no)
  6. Auto-archive old patches? (yes, when older than NN days/no)

Auto-superseding series and archiving old patches

The bot can do some basic housekeeping chores, such as automatically marking patches belonging to older versions of the series as "superseded." E.g. if a contributor sends "[PATCH NN/30] Do foo to bar", and then after that a new revision "[PATCH NN/30 v2] Do foo to bar", the bot can automatically mark the 30 patches belonging to the "v1" of the series as "superseded". In order to work, the following conditions must be met:

  1. It must be submitted by the same person
  2. It must have the exact same series name (first patch or cover letter subject wording)
  3. It must be within the cutoff period of days specified. In other word, if the cutoff is 90 days and the new series comes in 4 months later, there will be no match

Similarly, the bot can archive patches older than a certain period of time if they are still in the "New" state.

Notifying submitters

If you choose to notify submitters, it would send them a summary email per each series that was marked as accepted, for example:

Subject: Re: [PATCH v3,00/03] Apply foo to bar
From: patchwork-bot+project-name@kernel.org
To: Submitter Name <submitter@kernel.org>

Hello:

This series was applied to shuah/linux-kselftest (refs/heads/fixes).

On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:09:48 +0100 you wrote:
> The foo is not applied to bar, but it should be.
>
> Signed-off-by: Awesome Contributor <awesome@example.com>

Here is a summary with links:
  - [1/3] Apply foo to bar
    https://git.kernel.org/[...]
  - [2/3] Apply foo to bar with more conviction
    https://git.kernel.org/[...]
  - [3/3] Apply foo to bar for real this time
    https://git.kernel.org/[...]

You are awesome, thank you!

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This way, if you are applying a series of 50 patches from the same person, the submitter will only receive a single notification email.

userdoc/patchwork.1544628399.txt.gz · Last modified: 2018-12-12 15:26 by mricon