From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 09:50:44 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Sending patches from China In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20190909095044.1e30dd46@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 09:47:37 +0200 Arnout Vandecappelle 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com