Re: [PATCH] docs: media: document media multi-committers rules and process

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:59:58 +0100
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:

> > I find the GPG signature requirement to be borderline ridiculous. The
> > first message you're giving to committers is that you distrust them so
> > much that you want them to sign an agreement with their blood
> > (figuratively speaking). I don't think it's a very good approach to
> > community building, nor does it bring any advantage to anyone.  
> 
> I kind of agree with Laurent here. Is the media-committers mailinglist
> publicly archived somewhere? I think it is sufficient if this is posted
> to a publicly archived mailinglist. That could be linux-media, I would be
> fine with that. But media-committers would be more appropriate, but only
> if it is archived somewhere.
> 
> If we want a GPG key, what would we do with it anyway?

Every time I send pull requests upstream, I sign the PR tag with my GPG 
key:

	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media.git/tag/?h=media/v6.13-2

This is a requirement from the top maintainer. Requiring it is pretty much 
standard at the Kernel community, and wasn't anything similar "to sign with 
my blood" (using your words).

It is not just a random GPG key: it is a trusted key as stated at this patch:

	"a PGP key cross signed by other Kernel and media developers"
	 ...
	 For more details about PGP sign, please read 
	 Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst and
	 :ref:`kernel_org_trust_repository`."

If you see the last link, we're talking about a GPG signature inside
kernel.org web of trust.

Heh, all PRs we receive are signed with GPG keys that we trust, including
PRs from you. We need to keep doing it with the new workflow.

That reminds that there are still a gap there: the e-mail from the 
newcoming committer shall contain something like:

	"I'll be using this username to commit patches at media-committers:
	 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/<username>"

I'll add it to the next version.

Thanks,
Mauro