Re: Patch tracking

On 10 Aug 13, Michael Hope wrote:

The next big thing for the Toolchain WG is sending patches upstream and beginning to track patches in general. Some of the use cases are:

• Do a change upstream in 4.7, backport it to our 4.5, and backport

it to our 4.6 when we make one

• Do a change locally, track where it lands upstream, and figure out

what we have to bring forward when we next rebase

• Track what is Linaro specific and can't go upstream so we know what

to bring forward

I'm currently planning to use the Launchpad bug tracker and some custom reports to manage this. It's important that we don't lose any patches.

So git-based workflows won't benefit from this then?

Does anyone else have similar requirements, use for such a tool, or know of tools that already cover this?

It would be very useful for tracking kernel/tools deltas in the Kernel and PM WG. I know the Ubuntu Kernel team has expressed an interest in such a tool too.

/Amit