Re: b4 submit ready for beta testing

[Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek@baylibre.com>]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 10:27, Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 10:37:18AM +0200, Mattijs Korpershoek wrote:
>> > 2. "b4 submit" command got split into 3 different commands:
>> 
>> While I do agree that these commands make life easier, I don't think
>> that we should "ez-" as a prefix.
>> 
>> The "ez-" part has, in my opinion, no added value for users. It
>> assumes that using these commands is so easy that "you can't use it,
>> you're really incompetent". I think we should use more "neutral" langage
>> for commands (without judging if it's easy or difficult).
>
> Yeah, ez- is a gimmick and may not stay. It's easy to type and tab-complete,
> though, which is why I went with that (not that tab completion bits are done
> for b4 yet).

Ok. I really think it should be removed because it gives a judgment on
the user. For some folks it's also "easy" to "just use git send-email".

>
>> How about:
>> - b4 series (for creating/handling series. Also includes "send"/"submit")
>
> I think that makes it hard to distinguish from "b4 am/shazam" that also
> operate on series. In my mind, the command should indicate that it's
> specifically for working on series for submitting them upstream as opposed to
> for retrieving series for inclusion into your repos.
>
> Perhaps "b4 prep"?

Understood. series is indeed ambiguous and "prep" or "prepare" seems
more appropriate.

>
>> - b4 trailers (for handling trailer updates)
>
> Okay, since one of the plans is to add a way for maintainers to quickly send
> their own follow-up trailers, e.g.:
>
>     b4 trailers --ack [--trailer 'My-Trailer: Foo Bar <eml@addr.foo>'] <msgid>
>
> this would allow defining keybindings in mutt to quickly submit an "Acked-by"
> or any other trailer.

That looks awesome :)

>
>> >         b4 ez-send --no-auto-to-cc --dry-run
>> 
>> In my opinion, "b4 send" should be part of series because we cannot send
>> series that were not created with "b4 series".
>
> It won't be limited to just series, though -- you'll soon be able to send pull
> requests as well, and that will accept arbitrary tags. So, I intend to keep it
> separate from "prep".

Ok. I did not think about the pull requests part (I'm an
occasional contributor). It makes sense to keep them separated.

>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> -K