Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] Services needed from kernel.org

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 15:53 -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:48:37AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > I have been discussing with the Linux Foundation about if there are any
> > new IT services needed or desired for kernel developers (maybe or maybe
> > not under the kernel.org.)  The kernel.org cleanup and inevitable
> > changes meant we couldn't service some of the needs that we had in the
> > past, some of which has moved to privately owned equipment and some of
> > which has migrated to cloud services or discontinued.
> > 
> > However, the big question is: what IT services do kernel developers
> > need, and how can we best provide them?  One idea bandied about would be
> > to provide either managed or unmanaged VMs to kernel developers.  Would
> > that reduce the workload on the upper tier of kernel developers so that
> > we can focus more on our time on what actually provides value to our
> > users and employers, and which we hopefully find more interesting/fun?
> 
> How feasible is it to support git hooks that want to construct and send
> (significant volumes of) email, while retaining the security and
> sandboxing currently being applied to git repositories?

Seconded; it's a pain having to run my commit hooks on a different
system, particularly as the email is set up to come from kernel.org

James