Re: b4 review available in master

Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-16T23:28:06Z

Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org> writes:

> Hi, all:
>
> TLDR: "b4 review" is a terminal UI that hopes to streamline a lot of
> maintainer duties. A getting-started guide with screencasts is here:
> https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/reviewer/getting-started.html

So I've been playing with this a bit - fun stuff! A few initial
comments.

Let me be the N+1th to complain about the color scheme. Dark mode just
isn't my thing... and whoever designed "textual-light" has drunk
copious amounts of the low-contrast koolaid. I see some of the other
suggestions in the thread, haven't tried them yet.

I used it to bring in a series and comment on a patch. Nice
but... there doesn't seem to be a way to comment on the changelog?
That's an important part of the patch as a whole and I, at least, often
have things to say there.

Having descended onto a 30-part Mauro marathon, I can't a way to get
back to the main screen showing all of the tracked patches...? "q" just
drops me out entirely.

When can we have it as an Emacs mode? :)

Thanks for all of this,

jon