Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Josselin,

>>> b4/lei is a nice example (we already have yhetil.org as a back-end,
>>> but maybe a more blessed one would be better) of a tool that lets you
>>> completely automate applying a patchset to a branch.
>>>
>>> patchwork is a nice tool to gather up and track patchsets, with status
>>> indicators like "under review", "accepted", etc.  Chris already
>>> deploys one as part of QA, more integration with it would be nice.
>>
>> It seems (based on above) that "patchwork" can co-exist with debbugs.
>> Is that also the case with b4/lei?  Specifically, are the
>> users/reviewers able to benefit from using the above tools at present?
>> Or are there some reasons (over and above their lack of familiarity with
>> the above tools) that would prevent them from doing so?
>
> They both can co-exist with debbugs, and for now the patchwork instance
> of QA is not usable for status tracking (because it is not meant to be
> used as such for now).  One can already use both of them, but using both
> supercedes debbugs, and gets rid of its limitations.  I've been using
> b4/lei with the yhetil public-inbox instance, with piem.el as an
> interface, and it's really useful.  With a properly configured b4, one
> could simply run `b4 shazam some-msg-id` and it would automatically
> apply the corresponding patchset.

I’m interested in adopting this workflow.  Where can I find more
information on how to configure this?

-- 
Ricardo