Patch tracker

[Zebediah Figura (she/her)]

On 8/16/22 15:04, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> "Zebediah Figura (she/her)" <zfigura at codeweavers.com> writes:
> 
>> On 8/15/22 05:23, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>> We now have an automated reviewer assignment bot in Gitlab, thanks
>>> to
>>> the work of Jeremy White, so I think it's time to retire the
>>> wine-devel patch tracker. From now on, please submit everything
>>> through merge requests; patches sent to wine-devel will no longer be
>>> applied.
>>
>> I didn't realize this meant retiring the patch tracker page. Is that
>> necessary? Is there a chance it can be restored? It's faster and
>> better UI than either gitlab web UI or command-line tools.
> 
> Yes, it's necessary, I'm not going to continue to maintain a parallel
> file-based database for the status of every patch, especially since it
> was really a hack put together with Elisp and duct tape.
> 

Okay. I figured it would be fine to keep around since there wasn't any 
need to manually update patch status, but I understand the need to 
remove old code.