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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: konstantin@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: robh@kernel.org, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@gmail.com>,
	helgaas@kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	hch@lst.de, stefan@datenfreihafen.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Reflections on kernel development processes
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 23:33:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a01ead7c-94ce-12ef-a043-6fd492c6c431@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190930212410.GE14403@pure.paranoia.local>

On 9/30/19 11:24 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:52:01PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>> Most (all) of the "kit" functionality should be separated from the UI
>>> and be available for scripting/automation/other UIs. Whether it's
>>> done as "libgit" or as "shell out" is discussable.
>> [...]
>> On that note, such a tool would also need to co-exist with the current
>> email based process for some (long?) time in order to allow a smooth
>> transition period. Last week I spent a few of nights hacking a small tool
>> which is regularly pulling the lore git trees I'm interested in and checking
>> out all [new] mails into maildir format so they can be read naturally by
>> UIs like mutt et al [0]. As an experiment, in case of bpf vger mailing list,
>> it extracts all current ~8k mails in under a second:
> 
> Thanks for working on this -- I've started on a similar tool in the
> past, but got distracted and never completed it. In my implementation,
> it was piping messages to procmail, which allowed writing complex rules
> for folders/pre-processing, etc. May I suggest that your tool also
> offers a stdout that can be piped to procmail?

I have a rough version working now. ;-) Just pushed to [0]. Let me know if that
does the trick on your side, I've added example configs for procmail to the repo
as well for getting started. Did a quick run for l2md -> procmail -> mutt and
seems fine as far as I can tell. (Patches always welcome of course.)

Thanks,
Daniel

   [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dborkman/l2md.git/
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-01 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-11 15:08 Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-09-12 10:56 ` [Ksummit-discuss] Video of Dmitry's Kernel Summit talk (Was: Reflections on kernel development processes) Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-09-12 12:06 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Reflections on kernel development processes Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-09-13 16:22   ` Rob Herring
2019-09-13 16:34   ` Laurent Pinchart
     [not found]   ` <d6e8f49e93ece6f208e806ece2aa85b4971f3d17.1569152718.git.dvyukov@google.com>
2019-09-23 12:52     ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-09-23 14:08       ` Dmitry Vyukov via Ksummit-discuss
2019-09-23 14:57         ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-09-30 21:24       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-01 21:33         ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2019-10-02 15:04           ` Konstantin Ryabitsev

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