Re: [workflows]RFC: switching "THE REST" in MAINTAINERS away from linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-11-10T17:24:06Z

On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 09:04:46AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 16:56:33 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Developers might even be able to sign up to "virtual" lists, where
> > they get cc'd if a patch makes it to that list that has a file pattern
> > that matches their "I'm interested in these path patterns".
>
> Yes. Please.
>
> Could we possibly make that work via IMAP, inject the emails into
> people's inboxes instead of via STMP? It may break local filtering
> and would require that people give k.org passwords / API keys.
> But we won't be running into the STMP rate limits any more.

Search-based mailboxes are coming Very Shortly Now (TM). It's mostly down to
the logistics of how to let people self-manage the queries (probably via git,
because this gives builtin history, rollback, etc).

You can already feed entire mailing lists into Gmail via POP3, so very shortly
you'll be able to define your own query (to run against /all/) and have that
available to you as a NNTP feed and a POP3 mailbox. I chose to start with POP3
because Gmail has a native mechanism to import that into your inbox. I've been
receiving the git list this way for the past month.

-K