Re: RFE: use patchwork to submit a patch

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>]

Em Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:44:01 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> escreveu:

> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:32:54 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:01:08 -0400
> >   
> > > Thus, if we want people to send us their fixes, we better keep just
> > > an email with a patch the lowest bar for entry.    
> > 
> > I argue that for people coming into the software engineering world
> > today, a PR is the lowest bar for entry.  And email is the exact
> > opposite, _especially_ our way of doing email.
> > 
> > Because it IS NOT just an email with a patch.  
> 
> That is if the maintainer wants to be anal about the submission. I've
> taken patches where I only asked the person to give me a signed off by.
> I also ask:
> 
> "Hi, do you intend on being a contributor, or do you only want to get
> this fix upstream? If the latter, I will handle the change log and
> other formatting for you, all I need is the signed-off-by. Otherwise, I
> will help you submit a proper patch."
> 
> Again, this is for one offs, where someone found something like an off
> by one error or other trivial bug to fix. I just want the fix in, but
> will let the submitter decide how strict I will be to get it in. I've
> had people say "I don't care, just get it fixed", and I do the
> formatting and all the grudge work, but still give the submitter the
> credit.
> 
> Not to mention, there's several times I get a patch where the solution
> is totally wrong, and I need to make the fix anyway. A simple
> Reported-by is what the submitter gets. Also, perfectly done by email.
> 

About the same here: if needed, I change patch descriptions, and
for trivial patches submitted by newbies, I even correct bad whitespacing,
if needed.

All it takes for a patch to be handled is to send it in a way that
patchwork will recognize as a patch - e. g. it should carry a properly
formatted diff.

> > 
> > You are not helping casual contributors with this "simple" email based
> > submission method.  It is understood and easy us, but nobody else.  
> 
> I'm not saying that email is the only way, this entire thread is about
> getting another tool to help. But I will scream very loudly if we
> eliminate email totally.

Yes, e-mail should stay.

Thanks,
Mauro