Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)

[Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 01:54:18PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:51:44PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:07:06 -0700
> > Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > As far as recruitment goes, I think we're talking about barriers to first-timers
> > > and such - and git-send-email is one of those things. Eventually, a developer
> > 
> > +1000
> > 
> > I still don't use git-send-email, as I afraid that I'll blow it and end
> > up sending a thousand patches to every developer that ever touched the
> > kernel ;-)
> 
> I don't use git-send-email either.  I use git-format-patch
> --cover-letter --thread, and then mutt -H to individually send each
> mail.  (I originally added the --thread and --in-reply-to options to
> git-format-patch, so that you don't need to use git-send-email for
> that.)
> 
> The one thing I *do* find annoying is that the combination of
> format-patch and get_maintainers.pl can't easily say "I want to send all
> the patches and the cover letter to the same set of people, based on
> every patch".  (Or, at the very least, the cover letter to everyone.)

A bit off topic, but:

+1000 (thanks for that Steven)

This is partly why I wrote create-pull-request and submit-pull-request for the
Yocto Project.

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/scripts/create-pull-request
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/scripts/send-pull-request

They build the recipient list for each patch and the aggregate for the cover
letter, set confirm always, and disable git-send-email CC policy to avoid
spamming the planet.

> Otherwise, maintainers get one patch out of the series, which may be
> confusing without context, and the cover letter doesn't go to anyone.
> Unfortunately, fixing that then tends to hit LKML's limit on number of
> recipients.
> 
> - Josh Triplett
> 

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center