From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933297Ab3BTBNx (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:13:53 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:39980 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932307Ab3BTBNw (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:13:52 -0500 Message-ID: <51242379.9030909@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:14:33 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130105 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> <512402A7.9020500@infradead.org> <51241ED2.5080105@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: <51241ED2.5080105@ahsoftware.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/19/13 16:54, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 19.02.2013 23:54, schrieb Randy Dunlap: >> 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. >> > > Thanks a lot for clarification. > > In the meanwhile I've found an article at lwn about the kernel development process which lists many of the git repositories used by various maintainers. And that list includes tip. ;) > > So the reason for my ignorance was that I didn't know that tip is actually the name of a git repository used by the x86 maintainers. I can understand that. The kernel tree MAINTAINERS file says for X86: X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT) M: Thomas Gleixner M: Ingo Molnar M: "H. Peter Anvin" M: x86@kernel.org T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/core S: Maintained F: Documentation/x86/ F: arch/x86/ -- ~Randy