Re: RFE: use patchwork to submit a patch

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

Em Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:32:54 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> escreveu:

> 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.
> 
> It is an email with a specific Subject line format, with various
> fields.  Some field are optional and some are mandatory, and it also
> depends upon which tree you are targetting.
> 
> Then there is the commit message which has content and formatting
> requirements.
> 
> And then there are the tags, of various types and flavors, and the
> context (which is sometimes subtle) determines which of those tags are
> relevant and how they should be filled in.
> 
> The various other standard email fields like TO: and CC: have to
> be set a certain way otherwise the patch won't even be looked at.

I can't see how just adding a web interface like github/gitlab
would solve any of the above. I mean, the submitter will still
need to write a proper subject/description before submitting the
patch to the web interface, add the tags, etc. 

The only thing that would be different if we write a a Kernel-specific
web GUI would be to automate some sanity checks on it, like starting a CI
build for the patch series, run checkpatch and get_maintainers, but that 
could also happen if we write a script/submit_patches tool, that would
internally call checkpatch, get_maintainers and git send e-mail
(or use some other interface like patchwork REST to submit patches).

Thanks,
Mauro