Patches sent to patches.l.o aren't tracked

[Lee Jones]

When I visit my dashboard I can see that I have around 350 submissions which are still not marked correctly.

Most of these are either duplicates or have been accepted already.

Also, if a patch is submitted with exactly the same $SUBJECT line, I think any previous submissions should be invalidated.

[Lee Jones (lag)]

For instance:

ARM: ux500: New DT:ed snowball_platform_devs for one-by-one device enablement

Listed here: http://patches.linaro.org/7958/

Is clearly present:
  git log --no-merges --grep="snowball_platform_devs for one-by-one" mainline/master

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

The above patch has been merged as
  http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-arm.git;a=commit;h=11a0b5f09c941ede301ed3eee59fd69c2b4850c2

The diffs are not entirely identical: https://pastebin.linaro.org/1089/ (warning, diff of diffs :).

I suppose patchwork can't really match these up as one and the same patch. I'll take a look at a few others and see if there's something simple we can do.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Ok, this patch was really superseded by http://patches.linaro.org/9019/ which is correctly recognized as 'accepted'.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

We likely won't get to this in 2012.11, but I am just targeting so we don't forget about it for 2012.12.

[Lee Jones (lag)]

Sounds good.

On closer inspection, in appears that the vast majority of the accepted patches have been marked as so. Although, this isn't the case for all of them. I'm guessing that if a maintainer fixes-up a patch himself (or herself) then the diffs of the patch sent to patches.linaro.org and the applied one will differ.

The real issue here; however, seems to be the lack of marking patches as invalid as they are superseded by fix-ups. The solution shouldn't be too difficult. If a patch is sent with exactly the same $SUBJECT line and has the same commiter, then any previous patch submissions should be marked as invalid or superseded, perhaps with a link to its successor.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

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