Re: [kernel.org users] b4 v0.4.0 available with new features

["Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:04 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev
> <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, all:
> >
> > I am happy to release b4 version 0.4.0 that contains a set of
> > improvements and new features. To upgrade from pypi, run:
> 
> Thanks Konstantin! A couple of requests below.
> 
> > pip install --upgrade --user b4
> >
> > Or you can clone the repository directly:
> > git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git -b stable-0.4.y b4
> >
> > You can run ./b4.sh from the repository or set an alias/symlink to that
> > wrapper.
> >
> > # Improvements
> >
> > - When a series is missing patches, b4 is now able to backfill them from
> >   other mailing lists tracked on lore.kernel.org. This feature will be
> >   improved when public-inbox is able to collect a thread from across all
> >   sources.
> > - If both patch and metadata are identical between rerolls (v1 -> v2),
> >   b4 will automatically carry over trailers from v1 to v2. This is handy
> >   if there is an sob on [PATCH v2 7/15] from a maintainer that is
> >   missing from an identical [PATCH v3 7/15]. In my observation, this
> >   happens very rarely, though.
> 
> This is pretty common actually. At least common enough that I do a
> check for this and have a semi-automated reply for it.
> 
> I worry that automatically fixing it silently will create yet another
> case of tribal knowledge of maintainer practices/requirements for
> submitters. Maintainer A using b4 doesn't care if tags are added, but
> Maintainer B does care and gets grumpy. We need the tooling to promote
> that submitters should add these tags as that is what works in either
> case. It would be useful if b4 provided just the check as a separate
> command/option for integrating into maintainers tools or maybe
> submitter tools like checkpatch.pl.

It would be helpful if b4 had a submitter focused command that would
sync the tags from the mailing list with the current series in git (or
whatever)

Jason