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 DDEADAB2 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.9]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64195112 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:57:42 -0700 From: Darren Hart To: josh@joshtriplett.org Message-ID: <20150710225742.GP111846@vmdeb7> References: <201507080121.41463.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> <559C73DF.2030008@roeck-us.net> <20150708114011.3a1f1861@noble> <2879113.fraeuJIr2M@avalon> <20150709193718.GD9169@vmdeb7> <1436481109.3324.219.camel@infradead.org> <20150710003559.GT11162@sirena.org.uk> <20150710020706.GH111846@vmdeb7> <20150710155144.34dde697@gandalf.local.home> <20150710205418.GB10533@cloud> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150710205418.GB10533@cloud> Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Jason Cooper Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 01:54:18PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:51:44PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:07:06 -0700 > > Darren Hart wrote: > > > As far as recruitment goes, I think we're talking about barriers to first-timers > > > and such - and git-send-email is one of those things. Eventually, a developer > > > > +1000 > > > > I still don't use git-send-email, as I afraid that I'll blow it and end > > up sending a thousand patches to every developer that ever touched the > > kernel ;-) > > I don't use git-send-email either. I use git-format-patch > --cover-letter --thread, and then mutt -H to individually send each > mail. (I originally added the --thread and --in-reply-to options to > git-format-patch, so that you don't need to use git-send-email for > that.) > > The one thing I *do* find annoying is that the combination of > format-patch and get_maintainers.pl can't easily say "I want to send all > the patches and the cover letter to the same set of people, based on > every patch". (Or, at the very least, the cover letter to everyone.) A bit off topic, but: +1000 (thanks for that Steven) This is partly why I wrote create-pull-request and submit-pull-request for the Yocto Project. http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/scripts/create-pull-request http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/scripts/send-pull-request They build the recipient list for each patch and the aggregate for the cover letter, set confirm always, and disable git-send-email CC policy to avoid spamming the planet. > Otherwise, maintainers get one patch out of the series, which may be > confusing without context, and the cover letter doesn't go to anyone. > Unfortunately, fixing that then tends to hit LKML's limit on number of > recipients. > > - Josh Triplett > -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center