Version 0.1.4 (2024-11-19)

Release Notes

It has become a staple of the project at this point, but this release took a long time to be done (longer than v0.1.2 to v.0.1.3). As like in v0.1.3, this release consists of a mix of new features, refactorings and some fixes. Another cycle with great contributions from @OJarrisonn, @th-duvanel, and @lorenzoberts. Many thanks and welcome for the new contributors @auyer and @gabrielsrd. There are major new changes already on the oven as opened Pull-Requests, but I found it worth to make a new release, both to mark the progress done and to not have a huge time gap between releases.

New Functionalities and Changes Highlight

1. Add motions for patch previewing, allowing user to scroll half/full pages, go to start/end, and pan horizontally. Also in this context, add fullscreen preview.
2. Add dynamic loading screen with spinner for delayed actions.
3. Add new CLI option -c | --show-configs to display current configuration JSON.
4. Finish extraction refactoring of UI module.
5. Create lib crate lore to house all domain specific implementation and make codebase more organized.
6. Fix annoying and mysterious flakyness of Lore API requests by replacing reqwest client for a ureq one.
7. Fix poor performance of patch previews by pre-rendering them when opening patchsets.
8. Fix overall unreasonable high CPU usage by disabling auto-refresh of UI.

Problems and Future Changes

Mostly, there were developments in many diverse fronts so (I think) the technical debt is being paid, whilst new developments are being introduced.

Besides that, as previously mentioned, there are 3 major changes opened as PRs that are closer to merging than not. However, there are still some polishing and validating of those (understanble, due to their impact), so these will likely enter in the next release. On this note, the next release might be the last one before v.0.2.0, i.e., a beta version of patch-hub 👀.

Download patch-hub 0.1.4

File	Platform	Checksum
patch-hub-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
patch-hub-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

Version 0.1.3 (2024-10-09)

Release Notes

Following the trend of v.0.1.2, this release took a long time to be done, and even more commits (forty!). These consisted of a mix of new features, refactorings and some fixes. This cycle was mostly done by @OJarrisonn, @th-duvanel, and @lorezonberts. My work was predominantly about solving merge conflicts and bugging on them (sorry guys 😬). There are many optimazations and advances that aren't covered in the section below, but the highlights are described.

New Functionalities and Changes

1. Add CI workflow for formatting and linting and enforce those in the codebase.
2. Add a logging system with garbage collection.
3. Use derive_getters instead of exhaustively implementing getters.
4. Add many configurations and make them editable through the screen "Edit Config".
5. Add CI workflow for building and testing.
6. Modularize and encapsulate a great deal of the Model (src/app.rs) and Controller (src/handler.rs) components.
7. Add support for alternative patch renderers bat, delta, and diff-so-fancy.

Problems and Future Changes

This release opened up many possibilities for us to go going forward. Below are some of them.

1. Continue to expand on the refactor front, mainly by modularizing and revamping the View component.
2. Finish refining the patch preview screen is also something to keep on the radar.
3. Adding a decent UI to replying patchsets, as well as expanding its functionalities (replying to a subset of patches, using other tags, in-line reviewing, etc.).
4. There is already some talk about implementing a dynamic loading screen (which in itself is a huge rabbit hole).
5. Finally, trying to solve the flaky behavior of Lore API requests.

Download patch-hub 0.1.3

File	Platform	Checksum
patch-hub-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
patch-hub-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

Version 0.1.2 (2024-09-06)

Release Notes

It has been quite a while since the release of v0.1.1 (about one month). The rate of development dropped a little, but there were some meaningful contributions (including from new contributors 😛), so this release is to avoid keeping patch-hub outdated.

New Functionalities and Changes

1. Add a --version | -V flag to display the patch-hub version (issue #17).
2. Suppress warning for unused function centerd_rect.
3. Rearrange unit test sample files to src/test_samples and add unit tests for src/mailing_lists.rs and src/lore_api_client.
4. Create the cache directory before using it (issue #21).
5. Remove vendoring of openssl (issue #22).
6. Remove tab completion from the "Mailing List Selection" screen and allow the user to input the list without entirely typing it (issue #25).
7. Fix crashing bug of hitting ENTER when there is no bookmarked patchset (issue #12).
8. Fix overflow in the patchsets of the last page.

Problems and Future Changes

Many fronts are being explored right now, like: making configurations more robust and adding git send-email configurations, adding formatting and linting to the project, implementing logging, and more. The integration of kw and patch-hub is also being done by this PR.

IMHO, the following steps are to close these started fronts, make a new release, and then stop adding features to pay the enormous technical debt we have in the project.

Download patch-hub 0.1.2

File	Platform	Checksum
patch-hub-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
patch-hub-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

Version 0.1.1 (2024-08-07)

Release Notes

This is a minor release to fix the issues #18 and #19.

New Functionalities and Changes

1. Use a vendored version of the openssl dependency to ensure that the pre-compiled binaries of patch-hub don't crash at start-up like mentioned in #19 and to avoid missing dependencies when cross-compiling for the x86_64-unknown-linux-musl target.
2. Add support to the x86_64-unknown-linux-musl target, which produces more portable and self-contained binaries when compared with the -gnu target. This was done by adding this target to the release CI pipeline.

Problems and Future Changes

Adding openssl as a vendored dependency seems like an acceptable decision to solve the issues mentioned, which are kind of critical (especially #19). Still, the drawbacks of longer compile times, bigger executables, and more memory usage ("duplicated" openssl objects) aren't neglectable, so other solutions should be considered.

Download patch-hub 0.1.1

File	Platform	Checksum
patch-hub-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
patch-hub-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

Version 0.1.0 (2024-08-04)

Release Notes

I am really happy to announce the first release of patch-hub 🎉 🎊 ✨

This is a big release, as I wanted to have a somewhat stable vertical prototype for patch-hub.

New Functionalities and Changes

The big picture of features provided by this release of patch-hub are:

1. On-demand fetching the available mailing list archived on lore.kernel.org and dynamically displaying them based on the buffered user input (i.e., the available lists shown have the user input as a prefix) for the target mailing list. This comprises the Mailing List Selection screen, the first screen displayed when running patch-hub.

2. Consulting the flow of the latest patchsets from a target mailing list. This comprises the Latest Patchsets from screen, displayed after the user selects a target mailing list in the Mailing List Selection screen.

3. Seeing the details of individual patchsets, which include the patchset metadata (title of the representative patch, version of the series, number of total patches, time of update on Lore servers...) and visualization of all the messages in the series, as well as applying actions on them. This comprises the Patchset Details and Actions screen, displayed after the user selects a specific patchset (either in the Latest Patchsets from or Bookmarked Patchsets screen). Currently, there are two actions on patchsets provided: bookmarking/unbookmarking and replying to the full series with the Reviewed-by tag.

4. Keep track of specific patchsets that were bookmarked for future consultation. This comprises the Bookmarked Patchsets screen, which displays the patchsets that had the bookmark action applied and is accessible through the Mailing List Selection screen by hitting the F1 key. This screen is practically identical to Latest Patchsets from, and selecting a patchset from this screen results in the Patchset Details and Actions screen.

Note: The reply with the Reviewed-by tag provided by the Patchset Details and Actions screen is set to run with the --dry-run for validation purposes. When we feel comfortable, we will remove this flag (ideally, making it configurable).

Problems and Future Changes

The project is still in the prototype stage for this first release, as the UI and functionality will probably mutate a lot. In terms of the project architecture, overall structure, and robustness, it will also mutate a lot:

1. The "non-library components" of the project don't have any tests implemented and have minimal to no modularity (the Controller component is wholly defined in src/main.rs).

2. There is no formatting nor linting enforced. Linting may not be necessary (or even possible) as the Rust compiler keeps us really safe, and the community doesn't seem to usually adopt extra linting/sanitizing tools.

3. There are many potential unhandled errors due to the massive use of unwrap() and the like that can cause ugly crashes.

4. Having the motto "early optimization is the root of all evil" in mind, I didn't focus on the most efficient algorithms; despite their efficiency being more than acceptable (at the moment), we may need to address some potential unnecessary bottlenecks.

5. The reply with the Reviewed-by tag provided by the Patchset Details and Actions screen has a barebones visualization, as its user input and displayed output don't use the project UI (i.e., it isn't done using ratatui).

Download patch-hub 0.1.0

File	Platform	Checksum
patch-hub-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum