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 DE10CBB6 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-f47.google.com (mail-oi0-f47.google.com [209.85.218.47]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4AA72AB for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by oibn4 with SMTP id n4so6565859oib.3 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 03:17:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1436558412.24408.35.camel@infradead.org> 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> <1436558412.24408.35.camel@infradead.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:17:25 +0200 Message-ID: From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: David Woodhouse Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 10:00 PM, David Woodhouse wro= te: > On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 15:51 -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 fi= rst-timers >> > and such - and git-send-email is one of those things. Eventually, a de= veloper >> >> +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 ;-) > > Rather than sending messages, it's actually better to put them as > *drafts*, ready to be sent by the user's normal mailer. It's not hard > to do this =E2=80=94 I usually dump the mails into > ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Drafts/new/ for example. "Importing" patches in emails is one of the major reasons why they become corrupted. > And then I can *read* them before sending them, which is good practice > anyway. Am I the only person who often finds a final minor nit with > their own patch, in that final read-through just before hitting 'send' > on an email? "vi 0*patch"? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k= .org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. Bu= t when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like t= hat. -- Linus Torvalds