[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v1 1/3] doc/developer.texi: Improvements in "Submitting patches" section.

[Manolis Stamatogiannakis]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 19:14, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

>
> a lot of patchwork patch maintaince can be automated, ive written a script
> to do that.
> What this does is basically look at local git, fetch all patches from
> patchwork
> (and cache them locally)
> and then find stuff which is either invalid, superseeded, applied, ... but
> not
> marked correctly
> last it dumps the command line commands to the screen for a human to decide
> if they are correct and should be run as is or not.
> See:
> https://github.com/michaelni/patchwork-update-bot
>
> It worked fine until the server was updated or maybe the number of patches
> became too big.
> now it times out  while fetching patches, the command line tool (pwclient)
> times out too (xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for
> patchwork.ffmpeg.org/xmlrpc/: 504 Gateway Time-out>)
> so the bug is not in patchwork-update-bot
> Someone has to investigate why this timeout happens and make it not timeout
> then run this automatically in regular intervalls
>
> thx
>
>
Since it's python, I can take a look, provided it doesn't need any special
permissions.

M.