From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932678Ab3BSKhD (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:37:03 -0500 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:40340 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932498Ab3BSKhA (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:37:00 -0500 Message-ID: <512355C2.3050009@ahsoftware.de> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:36:50 +0100 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: richard -rw- weinberger CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: What is tip-bot? References: <512348A1.4000305@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 19.02.2013 10:54, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Holler wrote: >> Hello, >> >> until now I could successfully suppress my curiosity about those tip:foo >> messages, but as the bot (or one of them) has now catched me too, I want to >> ask what it is. >> >> Searching for "tip(-)bot" or similiar doesn't reveal some useful info (for >> obvious reasons). Could someone give me an URL to source or documentation >> about that tool so that I can enlight myself about it's meaning? > > AFAIK tip-bot is a set of shell scripts used by _T_glx, _I_ngo and _P_eter. :) > So messages from tip-bot are just acknowledgments (like those from Greg) that a patch has found it's way into one of the trees, with the difference that tip-bot sends those acknowledgments to lkml too, whereas Greg's scripts send them only to involved parties and not the lkml? Regards, Alexander