Fwd: Cannot submit merge request for xf86-video-intel

[Adam Richter]

Hi, everyone on xorg-devel.

I am wondering what the proper procedure is for submitting a patch or
merge request for xf86-video-intel.  I had trouble using gitlab to do it,
so I sent the following email to intel-gfx and got no response, which
is unsurprising to me, given that I think that that list is essentially
for Linux DRM patches.

The patch I am trying to submit, attached to this email,  is the other
"assert(a && b) --> asert(a); assert(b)" patch that I mentioned (the
first one being for xserver).  This one for xf86-video-intel, which I
believe is deprecated for Linux, but I imagine might still be used
in some circumstances.

Anyhow, my original email to intel-gfx, appended here, covers
this in slightly  more detail.  Any advice on how I should proceed
is welcome.  Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.

Adam

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Adam Richter <adamrichter4 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:27 PM
Subject: Cannot submit merge request for xf86-video-intel
To: <intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>


Hi, everyone.

I am having trouble submitting a merge request on
gitlab.freedesktop.org for xf86-video-intel, even though doing so for
xserver works fine.  The README for xf86-video-intel states that its
mailing list is intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org, so I am asking here,
even though most of the discussion on this list appears to be Linux
DRM patches.

On gitlab.freedesktop.org, I forked a personal copy of
xf86-video-intel and pushed a change to it, but when I try to create a
new pull request, the web page only offers me the options of
submitting the merge request to one of two other users' tree.

If I explicitly type "xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel" into the pull down
menu for "Target branch" (because the menu does have a box for
entering the text directly), the target repository name is updated,
but when I click on "Compare branches and continue", I get a screen
that states "You must select different branches," and has the target
and source both set to my repository and branch.

My understanding is that, on Linux these days, the X server now has
xf86-video-modesetting merged in and normally uses that instead of
xf86-video-intel, but xf86-video-intel is not marked as "archived" on
gitlab.freedesktop.org, so I am guessing that changes to it are still
potentially useful on some other operating systems or in some other
unusual cases.

In case anyone is curious about what the patch is, it is just
essentially mechanical conversions of "assert(a && b)" to "assert(a)"
and "assert(b)", hopefully for more efficient diagnosis of assertion
failure reports, which I have attached to this message for reference.
I submitting a similar merge request for the core X server a few days
ago, and it apparently got a positive feedback, and I expect it to be
merged shortly.

Anyhow, any advice on how I should proceed, including simply
redirecting me to a more appropriate mailing list, would be
appreciated.  Thanks for reading this far, and thanks in advance for
any guidance on this.

Adam
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