The missing link between mailing lists and CI.
Patchwork mainly:
- picks up emails from the mailing list(s) and organizes them in projects and series
- exports events through an API for each new series (for CI system consumption)
- makes patches/series available as downloadable mboxes
- provides API endpoint for submitting testing results
- sends those results as a reply to the patch/series on the mailing list
And secondly:
- provides a Web UI to browse, search and download the patches
- give means of tracing patches state, from initial submission to acceptance
It supplements mailing lists, not replaces them.
Check out docs/ directory. You can find more details and installation guide
there.
FDO flavor of Patchwork was forked quite a while ago due to the original project stagnancy. Since then, the original one picked up on development speed, going in its own direction. You can check it out here: https://github.com/getpatchwork/patchwork.
Official Patchwork-FDO repository: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/patchwork-fdo/patchwork-fdo/
Freedesktop instance: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/