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 C3786E5F for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 22:47:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.bootlin.com (mail.bootlin.com [62.4.15.54]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE1842D for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 22:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:46:59 +0200 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Greg KH , Tim.Bird@sony.com, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, mchehab+samsung@kernel.org Message-ID: <20180918224659.GZ14988@piout.net> References: <5b434160-07d9-4071-ac77-9d64ea69c980@email.android.com> <1537269419.3424.1.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20180918165917.GA9728@chatter> <20180918173148.GB9728@chatter> <20180918174913.GA22988@kroah.com> <20180918180324.GB10055@chatter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180918180324.GB10055@chatter> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 18/09/2018 14:03:24-0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 07:49:13PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > > 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 > > > > That last step might be hard, you have to "mail it out" to look like it > > came from the original author, right? Then all crud breaks out as you > > can't deliver an email from "sony.com" successfully. > > We already do nasty things to work around this. E.g. if you look at the > envelope-sender for mail delivered via mail.kernel.org you'll see that it > all looks like this: SRS0=crc=stuff=orig-domain.com=orig-local@kernel.org > > So, mailing it out and having it pass DKIM/SPF checks to be reliably > delivered is something we can do. Or, we can send it from > "vapor-git-thingy@kernel.org" and put the original sender into Reply-To, > which is also kosher. > Wouldn't that break patchwork? I remember having to edit patches because it changed the name of the author to its previous named based on the email address (the name changed but not the email). Else, I find that a generally good idea. -- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com