[Dnsmasq-discuss] patchwork

[Geert Stappers]

Previous-Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [PATCH] Create temporary leases for DHCPOFFER actions
In-Reply-To: <c050494a-16f6-e7c4-6e5e-5b49f884a6d1 at redhat.com>
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 10:54:28PM +0200, Petr Menšík wrote:
> On 7/13/22 19:20, Geert Stappers via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 10:26:35PM +0200, Petr Menšík wrote:
> > >   ... First two patches were already sent. I think I have sent
> > > also following patches already, but were not able to find them.
> > 
> > To prevent that patches get lost,
> > advices the Monthly Posting to poke after eight days again.
> > 
> > 
> > An additional attempt to prevent that patches (and contributors) get
> > lost, am I now experimenting with "dnsmasq mailing list patch collection"
> > 
> > It is a git repository that is cloned from git://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq.git
> > The master branch follows that repo, the other branches have patches
> > that I collected from this mailinglist. Currently that is the only
> > extra branch "y22w27", short for "year 2022, week 27". An upcoming
> > branch is "gcc12".  I'm in need for a (short) branch name for
> >    Create temporary leases for DHCPOFFER actions
> > as Previous-Subject says / suggests.

Ideas for the branch name are still welcome.


> > Webpage https://git.sr.ht/~stappers/dnsmasqmlpc has `git clone URL`
> > and links for further "browsing".
> > Example given: https://git.sr.ht/~stappers/dnsmasqmlpc/log/y22w27
> > 
> Interesting. Do you generate those by hand
> or are those generated by some tool?

By hand

 
> I have thought about a tool, which would collect patches sent from
> registered people and create a pull requests on gitlab or github, which
> would show their status. And if possible mark them merged automagically. But
> haven't found enough free time to play with that. Sort of external pull
> requests, which can be linked to bugs and tracked progress, if any.

There is 'patchwork' http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/
documentation is at https://patchwork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

My estimation is that we, dnsmasq project, can live without such tool.
On the other hand it would be nice to have such tool.


Groeten
Geert Stappers


P.S.
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