Where to best ack a series

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 2/23/2024 8:15 AM, Morten Brørup wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> Is it easier for you to spot if we ack a series in patch 0, patch 1, or the last patch of the series? Or don't you have any preferences?
> 

When a patch is ack'ed, not cover letter (patch 0), patchwork detects it
and both shows it in the web interface (A/R/T), and automatically adds
it when patch applied from patchwork, so this makes life easy.

But to ack each patch in a series one by one is noise for mailing list
and overhead for reviewer. For this case I think better to ack whole
series in reply to cover letter, maintainer can apply this manually to
each patch.

When there is a patch series, but it doesn't have a cover letter, I tend
to reply to patch 1, but I don't think patch 1 or last patch matters,
only to differentiate if the ack is for that patch or whole, I am adding:
```
For series,
Acked-by: ...
```

>From maintainers perspective this manually adding tags is small enough
work to ignore, but I see authors are impacted too, like if a previous
version cover letter is acked, they are not adding this ack manually to
each patch in next version, requiring reviewer ack the new version again



I guess best solution is add this series ack support to patchwork,
it can be either:
- Ack in cover letter automatically add ack to each patch in the series.
or
- Add new "Series-acked-by: " syntax, which if patchwork detects it in
any of patch in the series automatically add ack to each patch in the
series.