Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] add basic b4 config file

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2025-01-17 at 12:59 +0100, Quentin Schulz via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
> 
> b4[1] is a very nice tool for mail-based contribution. A config[2] file
> exists to set up a few defaults. We can use it to set the Cc recipients
> to always add, in our case the mailing list.
> 
> Because we do not have anything to check for now, disable needs-checking
> so patches can be sent without running b4 prep --check.
> 
> Because we do not have any auto-to-cc support (and the implicit one
> using scripts/get_maintainer.pl cannot work for us), also disable
> needs-auto-to-cc so patches can be sent without running b4 prep
> --auto-to-cc.
> 
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/b4/
> [2] https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/config.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
> ---
> Note that this file should be overridden by the one that I'll send for
> poky by the merging script (no clue how that would work), i.e. an update
> of .b4-config from OE-Core should not override the one from poky OE-Core
> when we merge/cherry-pick OE-Core patches later on.

Did you send one for poky? I was waiting to see what that looked like
so I could work out how to handle files. There are ways to do that but
I could do with knowing how things will ultimately look before I merge
anything.

Cheers,

Richard