Adding Series Dependency to Patchwork

[Aaron Conole]

Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Yes I still think it is a valuable work to achieve.
> If Aaron agrees, I wish you can complete this feature upstream.

okay by me

> Thank you
>
>
> 04/04/2024 15:50, 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
>>