On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, "Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The freedesktop Patchwork seems to have a "feature" where in some cases the > submitter for a series changes randomly to a person who did not actually > submit a version of the series. > > Not sure but this changed submitter seems to be a maintainer: > > ------------------------------------------------ > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/108156/ > > Original submission by badal.nilawar@xxxxxxxxx and subsequent submissions > by me (ashutosh.dixit@xxxxxxxxx) but current submitter is > jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. > > For the above series I believe the submitter changed at v7 where perhaps a > rebuild or a retest was scheduled (not sure if Jani did it and that changed > something) but the build failed at v7. Also note root msg-id's for v6 and > v7 are the same. > ------------------------------------------------ > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/108091/ > > Original submission by me (ashutosh.dixit@xxxxxxxxx) but current submitter > is rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx. > > Similarly here submitter seems to have changed at v3 where again the build > failed. Also note root msg-id's for v2 and v3 are the same. > ------------------------------------------------ > > The problem this change of submitter causes is that if the actual original > submitter wants to schedule a retest they cannot do it using the retest > button. I presume it's caused by me responding with a review comment that patchwork interpreted as a new patch in the series [1], and changed the series submitter too. Sorry about that. It's a known issue that I sometimes forget to work around when replying with diffs. BR, Jani. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/87fsfki73i.fsf@xxxxxxxxx -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
