[virtio-comment] trouble sending patch with git send-email

[virtio-comment] trouble sending patch with git send-email

[T.J. Alumbaugh]

Hi,

I'm having an issue trying to send a proposed spec change for
discussion to this list. I'm following the instructions here:

https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec#providing-feedback

which seem to be pretty standard and the typical workflow for sending
git patches. However, my messages bounce with this error:

<virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>: permission denied. Command output:
    Traceback (most recent call last):   File
    "/home/oasis/bin/kmlm_crosspost_issubn", line 14, in <module>     import
    MySQLdb ImportError: No module named MySQLdb Sorry, only subscribers may
    post. If you are a subscriber, please forward this message to
    virtio-comment-owner@lists.oasis-open.org to get your new address included
    (#5.7.2) ERROR: postqmail-local Error #77


I have confirmed that I am a subscriber to this list. This email
itself will serve as an experiment to determine if the message is
legitimate (the system believes I am not a subscriber), or if this
error is spurious and there is some other issue with sending a patch
with `git send-email`. In the event that this email does get through,
any advice on how to proceed would be much appreciated! Thanks,

-T.J.

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Re: [virtio-comment] trouble sending patch with git send-email

[Cornelia Huck]

On Mon, May 15 2023, "T.J. Alumbaugh" <talumbau@google.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having an issue trying to send a proposed spec change for
> discussion to this list. I'm following the instructions here:
>
> https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec#providing-feedback
>
> which seem to be pretty standard and the typical workflow for sending
> git patches. However, my messages bounce with this error:
>
> <virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>: permission denied. Command output:
>     Traceback (most recent call last):   File
>     "/home/oasis/bin/kmlm_crosspost_issubn", line 14, in <module>     import
>     MySQLdb ImportError: No module named MySQLdb Sorry, only subscribers may
>     post. If you are a subscriber, please forward this message to
>     virtio-comment-owner@lists.oasis-open.org to get your new address included
>     (#5.7.2) ERROR: postqmail-local Error #77
>
>
> I have confirmed that I am a subscriber to this list. This email
> itself will serve as an experiment to determine if the message is
> legitimate (the system believes I am not a subscriber), or if this
> error is spurious and there is some other issue with sending a patch
> with `git send-email`. In the event that this email does get through,
> any advice on how to proceed would be much appreciated! Thanks,
>
> -T.J.

Just to make sure it's not something obvious: Have you double checked
that the author in git matches the address you subscribed with? Because
this mail came through, and having the author set to a different address
without realizing it is something that happens a lot.


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Re: [virtio-comment] trouble sending patch with git send-email

[T.J. Alumbaugh]

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On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 9:17 AM Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> Just to make sure it's not something obvious: Have you double checked
> that the author in git matches the address you subscribed with? Because
> this mail came through, and having the author set to a different address
> without realizing it is something that happens a lot.
>

Thanks for the suggestion. I confirmed that the Author for the git commit
matches this email address:

Author: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@google.com>

I also generated a cover letter for the patch, since it seems reasonable to
include a significant "Motivation" section for a spec addition. That step
is actually not in the guidance, but other than that, it's a pretty
"vanilla" patch as far as I can tell. Is it undesirable to send cover
letters for patches?

-T.J.




On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 9:17 AM Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 15 2023, "T.J. Alumbaugh" <talumbau@google.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having an issue trying to send a proposed spec change for
> > discussion to this list. I'm following the instructions here:
> >
> > https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec#providing-feedback
> >
> > which seem to be pretty standard and the typical workflow for sending
> > git patches. However, my messages bounce with this error:
> >
> > <virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>: permission denied. Command
> output:
> >     Traceback (most recent call last):   File
> >     "/home/oasis/bin/kmlm_crosspost_issubn", line 14, in <module>
>  import
> >     MySQLdb ImportError: No module named MySQLdb Sorry, only subscribers
> may
> >     post. If you are a subscriber, please forward this message to
> >     virtio-comment-owner@lists.oasis-open.org to get your new address
> included
> >     (#5.7.2) ERROR: postqmail-local Error #77
> >
> >
> > I have confirmed that I am a subscriber to this list. This email
> > itself will serve as an experiment to determine if the message is
> > legitimate (the system believes I am not a subscriber), or if this
> > error is spurious and there is some other issue with sending a patch
> > with `git send-email`. In the event that this email does get through,
> > any advice on how to proceed would be much appreciated! Thanks,
> >
> > -T.J.
>
> Just to make sure it's not something obvious: Have you double checked
> that the author in git matches the address you subscribed with? Because
> this mail came through, and having the author set to a different address
> without realizing it is something that happens a lot.
>
>
> This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the
> OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC.
>
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> before posting.
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Re: [virtio-comment] trouble sending patch with git send-email

[Cornelia Huck]

On Mon, May 15 2023, "T.J. Alumbaugh" <talumbau@google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 9:17 AM Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just to make sure it's not something obvious: Have you double checked
>> that the author in git matches the address you subscribed with? Because
>> this mail came through, and having the author set to a different address
>> without realizing it is something that happens a lot.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I confirmed that the Author for the git commit
> matches this email address:
>
> Author: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@google.com>
>
> I also generated a cover letter for the patch, since it seems reasonable to
> include a significant "Motivation" section for a spec addition. That step
> is actually not in the guidance, but other than that, it's a pretty
> "vanilla" patch as far as I can tell. Is it undesirable to send cover
> letters for patches?

Presence of a cover letter or not should not make any difference whether
the mailing list accepts your post (I'd probably add a cover letter only
if the motivation section is too extensive for living in the git
repository in the end; if it should be included, there is nothing wrong
with a longer patch desription.)

Maybe you can try to cc: me on your submission? Then I can see where
things might have gone wrong. (Via the "--cc" option.)


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Re: [virtio-comment] trouble sending patch with git send-email

[T.J. Alumbaugh]

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 9:46 AM Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> Presence of a cover letter or not should not make any difference whether
> the mailing list accepts your post (I'd probably add a cover letter only
> if the motivation section is too extensive for living in the git
> repository in the end; if it should be included, there is nothing wrong
> with a longer patch desription.)
>
> Maybe you can try to cc: me on your submission? Then I can see where
> things might have gone wrong. (Via the "--cc" option.)
>

Thanks for the help. I have cc'd you on my latest "git send-email" command.

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