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Plaid is in development, this document uses task-list notation to mark what is already implemented and what is not.

Plaid, because you like different patchworks

Plaid is a patch tracking system, it aggregates patches sent to multiple mailing lists presenting a web interface to ease the review.

Its core functionality are pretty similar to the more mature patchwork

Differences from patchwork

Tag support

• Parse topic: tags
• List active tags by project
• List patches by tag

Patch support

• Track patch updates using --in-reply-to within the ml thread
• Name-tag-content heuristics
  • Update the patch status tracking ml updates not using --in-reply-to
  • Update the patch status using a secondary commit ml
  • Update the patch status using git hooks
• Support branch-targets (expressed using brackets notation [release/11])

Patch series support

• Support git format-patch/git send-email series
• Navigate through the series using the web interface
• Patch series bulk download

Web Interface

• Search
• Aggregate by tags
• Aggregate by Submitter/Author (submitter profiles)
• Aggregate by patch status (new, pending, stale)
• Direct review from the website
• User management

Command line

• Patch importer by mailbox
• Mailing list hook mode
  • Email importer
  • Email rewriter (add a link to website url for the patch)
• Built-in database migration support
• User management

Git Integration

• Patch (series) applicability to the target tree
• Git metadata parsing (renames and deletion highlights)
• Continuous Integration/testing support