From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 698E2BD1 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from delay-1y.bbox.fr (delay-1y.bbox.fr [194.158.98.16]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E8F511F for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:47:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-3y.bbox.fr (bt8sssoh.cs.dolmen.bouyguestelecom.fr [172.24.208.141]) by delay-1y.bbox.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8AF84BA29 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:33:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:32:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20150710.193255.181692772319686216.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> To: rostedt@goodmis.org From: Christian Couder In-Reply-To: <20150710114409.638582c0@gandalf.local.home> References: <2879113.fraeuJIr2M@avalon> <20150709193718.GD9169@vmdeb7> <20150710114409.638582c0@gandalf.local.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jason@lakedaemon.net, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, robertotyley@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:44:09 -0400 > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 12:37:18 -0700 > Darren Hart wrote: > >> I've come to believe that this is one of many side effects of our dependency on >> a completely free form mechanism for the management of our patches, a mechanism >> which is becoming harder and harder to setup "correctly" with modern tooling >> (since the industry is killing "real email"). >> >> I spend a highly disproportionate amount of my time, relative to measurable >> quality impact to the kernel, going over the nuances of submitting patches. >> >> 1) Must have a complete commit message >> 2) DCO goes above the --- >> 3) Include a patch changelog, do so below --- >> 4) Cc maintainers :-) >> 5) Checkpatch... checkpatch... checkpatch... > > Ug, don't emphasize checkpatch. I see people making patches uglier due > to it. I have an old version of checkpatch that I sometimes run, but > the new version, IMHO, has more noise than signal. > >> 6) Compiler warnings >> 7) CodingStyle :-) >> 8) Use ascii or utf8 character encodings >> > > >> Looking forward a bit, I would love to see some tooling in place for people to >> submit patches either via a web form (which eliminates all the email tooling for >> submitting patches - which is where the formatting is especially critical) or >> through one of the more managed git systems, like gerrit, etc. > > You mean like a web page that has a bunch of entries (like submitting a > paper to a LF conference), and you need to fill out. To send patch emails created from git repos on GitHub to the Git mailing list, there is now submitGit: https://submitgit.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/rtyley/submitgit Maybe Roberto, its author (cced), could be convince to do something for the kernel?