From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934802Ab3BSWxz (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:53:55 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:56916 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933020Ab3BSWxy (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:53:54 -0500 Message-ID: <512402A7.9020500@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:54:31 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Holler CC: richard -rw- weinberger , linux-kernel Subject: Re: What is tip-bot? References: <512348A1.4000305@ahsoftware.de> <512355C2.3050009@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: <512355C2.3050009@ahsoftware.de> 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 On 02/19/2013 02:36 AM, Alexander Holler wrote: > 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? Yes, that is my understanding of it. -- ~Randy