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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] checkpatch/Codingstyle and trivial patch spam
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:26:19 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1609142120090.3347@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160914143934.4nkdur7ivgywyfrt@thunk.org>



On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 04:35:06PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >
> > The --force is only required for non-staging code?  If it is required for
> > staging code, then we will have to document it in the outreachy tutorial,
> > and then all the (non-outreachy) newbies who look at the tutorial will
> > know about it...
>
> The whole point of the option is to try to discourage people from
> sending white-space (or only style-only) patches.  So I'm not so sure
> that it would be such a tragedy if people like (for example) Markus
> Elfing or Nick Krause don't find out about the --force option right
> away.  Given that outreachy folks are encouraged to work on staging
> code anyway, would it make a difference to them?

People other than outreachy applicants may look at the outreachy tutorial.
It is even written that way in some cases.  I guess that checkpatch could
detect whether -f is used on a staging driver and not require --force if
that is the case.  This would have the other desirable benefit of reducing
the chance that outreachy applicants will send patches on non-staging
code.

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-13 18:58 Christian Borntraeger
2016-09-13 19:18 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-13 19:45 ` Josh Triplett
2016-09-13 20:03   ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-09-13 22:14     ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14  5:29       ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-13 23:49     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-14  2:03       ` Josh Triplett
2016-09-14  2:24         ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14  5:57           ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-14  6:27             ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14  6:35               ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-14  6:43                 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14 17:11               ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-09-15 16:33                 ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-14 11:54           ` Greg KH
2016-09-14 14:23             ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14 14:32               ` Greg KH
2016-09-14 14:35                 ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-14 14:39                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-14 19:26                     ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2016-09-14 14:51                   ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14 19:30                     ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-14 14:51                 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14 14:45               ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-14 15:13                 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14 19:46                   ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-14 18:04       ` Eric W. Biederman

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