Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 1/2] add basic b4 config file

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

On Wed, 2025-02-05 at 14:09 +0100, Quentin Schulz via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On 2/3/25 4:17 PM, 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. The
> > mid-term/long-term plan is to use patchtest locally.
> > 
> > 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>
> > ---
> >   .b4-config | 3 +++
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/.b4-config b/.b4-config
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ec5ddd91e1da05f27a53ff6f3d7351317461859
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/.b4-config
> > @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> > +[b4]
> > +  send-series-cc = openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
> 
> Messed up here and should be send-series-to instead according to our 
> README.md. Same remark applies to all other b4 patches sent to YP/OE.
> I'll leave a few more days for feedback and send a new version to tackle 
> that oversight.

I merged the script and was about to look at the config files (which
need a little more work by tweaking combo-layer) but I'll hold off
given the issue. I think we're ready to merge them...

Cheers,

Richard