[flashrom] Proposed changes to flashrom hosting and workflow

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 07.01.2016 09:28, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 09:13:17 +0100
> Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi at google.com> wrote:
>
>> 2016-01-07 9:09 GMT+01:00 Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>:
>>> Do you have any suggestions regarding the patchwork database? What did
>>> coreboot do with its pw when it was switched to gerrit?
>> We noticed that nobody cared, so it's still lying dormant.
> I was fearing that this would be the answer because I actually use it
> for flashrom and this needs to be solved in some way or another when we
> switch. One possibility would be to just keep it until all important
> stuff is gone but I guess that is not an option for you and Stefan?
>
> The other would be to push the related changes to the new system. It
> would be quite some work (I don't have all of the foreign patches in my
> local git) but it would have the advantage to 1) bring them into a
> applicable and reviewable state, 2) test if the switch attracts any
> reviewing activity.

AFAIK there is http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/ which provides patchwork
hosting for other projects. We might be able to migrate our stuff to them.

That would solve the hosting problem and remove the admin overhead.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel