Re: [docs] [PATCH] add basic b4 config file

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi Quentin,

On Thu Jan 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM CET, Quentin Schulz 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>
> ---
> I'm wondering if we couldn't add some per-patch check as well, checking
> that the documentation builds for each for example. Could be added in a
> later patch though. Any idea?

I would agree but a docs build already takes a while, so I think a single docs
build for the b4-managed branch would be enough. Don't know if that's possible
though.

> ---
>  .b4-config | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/.b4-config b/.b4-config
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f87f61b58519862da44fd9af6e6d0018edc7dc2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/.b4-config
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +[b4]
> +  send-series-cc = docs@lists.yoctoproject.org

Why not send-series-to?
This is what we instruct users to do in the readme, and in the contributor
guide.

> +  prep-pre-flight-checks = disable-needs-auto-to-cc, disable-needs-checking
>
> ---
> base-commit: 6b44257874858db3aa426d3e84a79c41cb4937a3
> change-id: 20240524-b4-support-d5e749251bba
>
> Best regards,


Antonin

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