[Buildroot] Sending patches from China

[Buildroot] Sending patches from China

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

 Hi all,

 ??? drew my attention to the problem that many mail services are blocked in
China. Apparently, it is possible to send mail through a web interface, but SMTP
is difficult.

 Does anyone know a good workaround for this issue?

 If there is no easy workaround, I think we'll have to allow patches as
attachment for these cases. They're at least better than whitespace-damaged
patches... If so, we should probably update the manual with this information.

 Regards,
 Arnout

[Buildroot] Sending patches from China

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 09:47:37 +0200
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:

>  ??? drew my attention to the problem that many mail services are blocked in
> China. Apparently, it is possible to send mail through a web interface, but SMTP
> is difficult.
> 
>  Does anyone know a good workaround for this issue?

A good question is how is the kernel community handling this ? There
are plenty of developers from China contributing to the Linux kernel,
and they have to send patches for that.

In any case, if a contributor is indeed not able to send patches by
e-mail due to state restriction, I will personally be very fine with a
patch sent as attachment to an e-mail or a bug tracker entry. It would
be difficult to handle this for a large number of contributions, but
for a few contributions, it is much nicer than simply ignoring them.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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