Adding Series Dependency to Patchwork

[Aaron Conole]

Patrick Robb <probb at iol.unh.edu> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 12:15 PM Adam Hassick <ahassick at iol.unh.edu> wrote:
>
>> > If we go with the URL option, does is still required to differentiate as
>> > "patch-xxx" or "series-yyy", previously they were different IDs, but
>> > with URL can patchwork deduce if it is series or patch? If so this can
>> > bring a simplification.
>>
>> No, you can just paste the URL and the Django URL resolver will figure
>> out whether it points at a patch or a series. No need to differentiate
>> with the URLs.
>>
>> That's also true of the message ID option too. There isn't much of a
>> point in differentiating patch/series message IDs because series do
>> not reliably have an email associated with them.
>
> Sounds good. I want to highlight again for the ci group that all
> dependencies will be series dependencies, regardless of whether
> "patch-xxx" or "series-yyy" is used. If a patch message id or url is
> submitted, it will be mapped to its series url for the dependency.

Thanks for the heads up - it means we will probably need to change
things in the robot to make sure we support that format when it gets
accepted.