Not sure I trust patchwork yet

[Brendan Cully]

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 23:35, Matt Mackall wrote:
> I wrote the patchwork-to-imap-flag script I was wishing for earlier.
> It works as follows:
> 
>  - find all messages marked "[PATCH" in my inbox
>  - find all patches marked "new" or "under review" in patchwork
>  - for each message in my inbox:
>    - if it's in the patch set, flag it
>    - if it's not, unflag it
> 
> Thus, if it has a flag in my inbox, I may not want to delete it just
> yet, as I may need to reply to it or queue it.
> 
> But if it doesn't have a flag, I can delete it without tediously
> cross-referencing it with the rest of my mailbox, crew, or patchwork,
> safe in the knowledge that it's somehow been either dealt with or
> superseded. 
> 
> However, I seem to have spotted several false negatives. Here are a
> couple:
> 
> http://markmail.org/message/2asd5fg73v5bqgzb
> http://markmail.org/message/kt56kjokj2lg7av6
> 
> These two patches do not appear to be anywhere on patchwork.
> 
> (I could simply also flag patches that are unknown to patchwork, but
> that rather defeats the purpose of using patchwork and is also already
> quite slow.)

Couldn't you flip it around and have patchwork flag the messages that
it knows are no longer relevant so you can delete them quickly?