GCC mini-summit - Patch tracker

["Daniel Berlin" <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

>    We discussed the patch tracker.  None of the active maintainers who
>    were there appear to use it very much or at all.

This is because it does not enable them to easily review patches, only
to see which they have missed ;)
>  I proposed
>    automatic e-mail pings, but that wasn't generally welcomed.
>    Richard Henderson suggested that the patch tracker should have a
>    way to quickly and easily approve a patch.  A couple of people said
>    it would be nice to be able to use the tracker to send an e-mail
>    reply; it does provide a mechanism for that, but it is web-based
>    rather than being part of one's usual mail reader.  One possibility
>    mentioned was to have a button for the patch tracker to send the
>    maintainer a copy of the e-mail, which would be a convenient way to
>    write the reply in a preferred mail reader.

I am happy to do either (let it approve patches or email)

For email, I could provide a nice interface that displayed the actual
message/diff of the patch in question, properly quoted into a text box
where one could add their comments.
For approving directly, I would probably need to add usernames and passwords.

If people are okay with this, I have no problem implementing it.