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 79EC110F1 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com (perceval.ideasonboard.com [213.167.242.64]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE9D15D4 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:05:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Laurent Pinchart To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:05:37 +0300 Message-ID: <2862428.aifHJM1PbC@avalon> In-Reply-To: <20180918173148.GB9728@chatter> References: <20180917100413.22eac00d@coco.lan> <20180918173148.GB9728@chatter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, mchehab+samsung@kernel.org, Tim.Bird@sony.com, Konstantin Ryabitsev Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Konstantin, On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:31:48 EEST Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 05:08:02PM +0000, Tim.Bird@sony.com wrote: > >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-> >> 3A__korg.wiki.kernel.org_userdoc_mail-23sending-5Foutgoing- > >> 5Fmail&d=DwICAg&c=fP4tf--1dS0biCFlB0saz0I0kjO5v7- > >> GLPtvShAo4cc&r=rUvFawR4KzgZu1gSN5tuozUn7iTTP0Y- > >> INWqfY8MsF0&m=90EMZrRfkvlzWBNtrJ8QnHDj3-EwehEZhQiC5YJY- > >> Uk&s=xtUgBLn5bjLazevAEIdAoHAGclbgin-D9Cek15hsuZk&e= > > Ick. > > > Thank you for the offer. However, while that's a solution that might > > work for me (modulo my ability to punch my way through the firewall to > > that mail server), it doesn't scale or help my colleagues at Sony who I'm > > trying to remove barriers for as well. I'm senior enough at Sony to have > > a somewhat different situation than other Sony Linux developers, however > > I intentionally work through the IT department and use commonly provided > > tools here in order to 1) understand the hurdles other developers at Sony > > have, and 2) work on general solutions. > > Ah, I understand your situation better now. > > 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? What if that imaginary web tool accepted a git push fo steps 3 and 4 ? It would be nice if the git push could be unauthenticated, but I understand that could cause spam and other related issues. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart