Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Topics for the Maintainer's Summit

Dave Airlie
2019-09-02T20:42:58Z

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On Friday, 30 August 2019, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:17:20PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > ...
> > Are there some additional topics that you'd like to suggest that we
> > discuss at the maintainer's summit?
>
> I don't have an effective workflow for managing incoming patches. I
> use a hodge-podge of patchwork, gmail, mutt, and ugly private scripts
> to put patches on topic branches, review them, polish them, merge them
> together into a "-next" branch, generate pull requests, etc.
>
> I wish there were a collection of the workflows and scripts people
> use, maybe even in the kernel sources so they could be shared and
> improved. Some short screencasts could help visualize and pull things
> together. I know a lot of this stuff is "out there" somewhere, but
> I'm not aware of any organized collection.

These are quite drm specific but they do mean myself and Daniel can operate
seamlessly, and all i915 and drm misc maintainers and committers use the
same enforced workflow. We hope to move to gitlab at some point and may try
and use the same interface or not.

https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/maintainer-tools/index.html

Happy to give more info at maintainer summit, but we have gotten negative
feedback in the past from some community members who wanted to point out at
length that drm didnt invent group maintainership first, i still have no
idea of the relevancy of the comment.

Dave.

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