[libvirt] Publishing libvirt 'patches' JSON database?

I'd imagine most developers on this list have their own workflows to track/apply/test patches from the mailing list. I normally just save patches in Mutt's Maildir and apply them manually to a Git branch. I recently began using the 'patches'[1] tool, that some of you on this list must be familiar with, to test arbitrary QEMU patches from the mailing list, and found it relatively easy large patch series from mailing list. I'm writing this to check if the libvirt upstream community finds it desirable to setup such a patches database. What is 'patches'? ------------------ Quoting the README[2]: "patches is a patch tracking system. It consists of two parts: a set of commands that build a database of patches from a mailing list and then a set of commands that can search that database. It supports the following features: - Tracking patch status by determining which patches are already committed, have newer versions posted, are RFC, etc. - Applying patches or pull requests with a single command. - Searching for patches using a rich query language." A quick workflow to test patches from mailing list --------------------------------------------------- FWIW, this is my rudimentary use-case. Clone the repo, and fetch the patches database (may take a few minutes): $ git clone https://github.com/stefanha/patches.git $ cd patches $ ./patches fetch http://wiki.qemu.org/patches/patches.json And, suppose, I want to test Dan's LUKS encryption support (26) patch series, I go find the message ID: $ ./patches list | grep -B5 "Support LUKS encryption" Message-id: 1456747261-22032-1-git-send-email-berrange(a)redhat.com From: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: 2016-02-29 Tags: v4 [0/26] Support LUKS encryption in block devices Trivially apply it (assuming you have a test branch): $ ./patches apply --git-dir ~/src/qemu/ \ id:1456747261-22032-1-git-send-email-berrange@redhat.com Applying: crypto: add cryptographic random byte source Applying: crypto: add support for PBKDF2 algorithm Applying: crypto: add support for generating initialization vectors Applying: crypto: add support for anti-forensic split algorithm Applying: crypto: skip testing of unsupported cipher algorithms [...] Test away! Rinse, repeat: "The `fetch` command should be run whenever you want to refresh the patch database; it will download any new patches that have arrived since the last time you did a fetch." Here's[3] the documentation to setup the patches database. [1] https://github.com/stefanha/patches/tree/stefanha-tweaks [2] https://github.com/stefanha/patches/blob/stefanha-tweaks/README.md [3] https://github.com/stefanha/patches/blob/stefanha-tweaks/README-server.md -- /kashyap