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

Shuah Khan
2019-09-02T15:09:50Z

On 8/30/19 7:58 AM, Bjorn Helgaas 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.
>

This is a great idea. Folds in to my request make the script that pulls
in the Link tag widely available.

Patch version changes in commit logs? (Shuah Kahn)
How to make information about how commit has changed while being
developed. (A solution which has already been adopted by some
maintainers is to use the Link: tag in the commit discussion).
There have been a more recent discussion in this past week under
subject line "Allowing something Change-Id (or something like it)
in kernel commits".

I have a work-flow that works and I would like to learn from others and
improve mine.

thanks,
-- Shuah