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A/R/T on cover letter should increment the counters of every patch

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by tracing how A/R/T replies to a cover letter and to individual patches are currently recorded, then inspect how patches are associated with a series. Done means a review or ack sent in reply to the cover letter updates every patch in the series without counting the same person's response twice.

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Description

enhancement

Let's say we have a 5 patch series with a cover letter. I review the whole series, and rather than sending 5 emails I send one, in reply to the cover letter with my ack or review. This is pretty commonplace from what I've seen. The author of the series was concerned that my ack/review wouldn't be easily visible from Patchwork, so the maintainer would be less likely to merge the series.

A/R/T in reply to the cover letter should increment the counters for every patch in the series, making sure that the counter doesn't get incremented twice if the same person also replies with an A/R/T on an individual patch for some reason.

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