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 89566BC3 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f194.google.com (mail-ig0-f194.google.com [209.85.213.194]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 074CA12C for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igbc1 with SMTP id c1so4476438igb.3 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 03:53:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150710224929.GO111846@vmdeb7> References: <2879113.fraeuJIr2M@avalon> <20150709193718.GD9169@vmdeb7> <20150710114409.638582c0@gandalf.local.home> <20150710.193255.181692772319686216.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <20150710174940.GN111846@vmdeb7> <20150710224929.GO111846@vmdeb7> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:53:59 +0100 Message-ID: From: Roberto Tyley To: Darren Hart Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Roberto Tyley , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, jason@lakedaemon.net Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 10 July 2015 at 23:49, Darren Hart wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:35:59PM +0100, Roberto Tyley wrote: >> It would be great to turn on submitGit for development of the Linux >> Kernel. Just to clarify, submitGit is a bridge for sending GitHub pull >> requests on https://github.com/git/git to git@vger.kernel.org as >> correctly formatted emails > > While there is value there and would help a lot of people, given the popularity > of git-hub, I think we're looking for something more generic. > > I'd prefer a web-form hosted on kernel.org that could accept a raw patch, or a > git URL and tag or branch from any reposiory (github or otherwise), and submit > the patch after performing a number of validation checks before ever sending to > the list. > > I understand this maybe isn't an extension of submitGit, but the concept of > submitGit is interesting from a precedence perspective. Fair enough - glad to provide a precedent, if not an implementation! > P.S. I don't know if your top posting was intentional (very clever) or > accidental (case in point), but either way it's dripping with irony. ;-) Totally unintentional irony :-)