Hi Andy,

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:

[...]

> (There seems to be tool like b4 or patchworks for Linux kernel
> developers and their mailing lists but not sure if similar tools exist
> for GNU (or Guix specific) development mailing lists)

what you ask has been discussed several times in guix-devel since a
smoother "send and recieve patches workflow" is a very common desire :-)

I'm still not extensively using the tools I mention in 2. so I have no
"hands on" suggestions, I'm currenly using 1 (but still not emacs-piem).

1. use notmuch (possibly with emacs-piem)

if already a notmuch user **and** you are subscribed to the patches
mailing list, for a single patch you can copy the patch message-id (cI
to stash it) and use

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

$ notmuch show --format=mbox id:XXX | git am

for a single patch, or

$ notmuch show --format=mbox thread:XXX | git am

for a whole series

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
(https://notmuch.notmuchmail.narkive.com/V2cK3dJb/handling-patch-from-mail)

if you are comfortable with emacs, emacs-piem can be used as a frontend
to apply patches from a Notmuch (or Gnus) buffer (or editable pop up
mbox buffer):
https://docs.kyleam.com/piem/Applying-patches.html#Applying-patches

2. Use b4 and public-inbox related tools

the advantage of b4 is that you are not "forced" to be subscribed to the
patches mailing list(s) since it can apply patches from a public-inbox
backed mailing list

https://yhetil.org/guix/20201114003906.25111-1-kyle@kyleam.com/

This is a thread that explains how to use b4 with the guix-patches
(unofficial) public-inbox, this is an executive summary:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

$ # in the guix repo
$ git config b4.attestation-policy off
$ git config b4.midmask https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/%s
$ b4 am <message-id>

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

If you use Emacs there is a frontend: emacs-piem

3. keep looking at mumi

recently (April 2023 [1]) the "mumi send-email" CLI was added to help in
/sending/ patches

maybe one day a CLI will be added to ""mumi git-am" in a similar way as
the workflow in 1.

On May 2022 [2] Ludovic sent a "super-early-draft" of a "guix review"
command on the guix-devel mailing list and there was some consensus that
it should become "mumi review", but no development was done since then
AFAIK


HTH, Happy hacking! Gio'


[1] https://yhetil.org/guix/87mt2xiab3.fsf@systemreboot.net

[2] https://yhetil.org/guix/87a6btymzz.fsf@gnu.org

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Giovanni Biscuolo

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