Adding Series Dependency to Patchwork

[Patrick Robb]

Hi Thomas,

Adam explains more completely in the preceding email, but he has
talked with the patchwork project maintainer, and determined the
needed next steps to do work adding depends-on support to patchwork
server. And he provides an estimate (35-50 hours of his time) for
adding this feature to pw.

What we want is a community opinion on using Community Lab resources
(our developer time) towards this effort on patchwork project. I'm
going to you, because you were the person who originally raised the
depends on issue and adding this support to pw server.

Given his time estimate, do you endorse this work, or do you prefer we
focus on our SOW items and other community requests which are in queue
right now? Thanks.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:51 PM Adam Hassick <ahassick at iol.unh.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> There has been a discussion on GitHub between myself and others about
> adding support for series dependency to Patchwork. This would involve
> adding the feature to the Patchwork dashboard and git-pw. However, it
> seems like the maintainer would like us to do much of the required
> implementation work. I estimate, with a low level of certainty, that
> it would consume 35 to 50 hours of developer time.
>
> The active issue relating to this feature can be found here, as well
> as the archived one:
> https://github.com/getpatchwork/patchwork/issues/583
>
> Would it be worth it for us here at the Community Lab to contribute
> upstream to Patchwork? Implementing the feature in the Patchwork
> project will make our method for defining series dependencies the
> standard, and it may lift some of the burden of maintaining this
> feature off of us.
>
> Regards,
> Adam Hassick