On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 05:42:57PM +0000, Tim.Bird@sony.com wrote:
>> So, what if we imagine that there's an imaginary web tool that does
>> this:
>>
>> 1. Allows people to generate an account
>> 2. Verifies their email address
>> 3. Instructs people how to generate a patch or series of patches
>> 4. Gives a way to upload generated patches
>> 5. Runs checkpatch to make sure there are no errors
>> 6. Runs get_maintainer to find out where the patch(es) should be sent to
>> 7. (Does more imaginary magic, such as looking up message-id references)
>> 8. Mails it out
>>
>> Would that be useful or solve any problems? Or would that, on the
>> contrary, create more problems than it solves?
>
>Konstantin,
>
>I feel like this thread re-converged and you proposed the exact thing I just
>expressed interest in to Linus.  You were probably writing your message at
>the same time I was writing mine.  Wow!
>
>Personally, I feel this would be a GREAT thing.

Okay, tacking on some more imaginary features on top of this, let's say 
it also had a way to add a remotely hosted git tree to your account, 
e.g.:

https://github.com/somecorp/linux-corpfidget.git alias corpfidget

It could then offer a CLI utility to issue a command like this using the 
https API:

vapor-git-thingy -g corpfidget -r 1234abcd..5678dcba -v2 -c coverletter.txt

That would do the same as the above, plus do the patch generation 
itself...

Okay, I think I might be able to scrape up funding to get this built 
once I put this into a more presentable form.

-K