On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:52 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You don't want to accept these contributions even if you won't be able > to tell the difference on your end? But why? This looks really > orthogonal to a person's expertise and proficiency in software > development. Whether that's inability to deal with email, or no desire > to spend time on that, or just personal preferences. Agreed -- torvalds/linux may attract a lot of spam, but the LKML also does. Any sufficiently "famous" repo/service/ML will, after all. > On the other hand this workflow has the potential to ensure that you > never need to remind to run checkpatch.pl, nor spend time on writing > code formatting comments and re-reviewing v2 because code formatting > will be enforced, etc. So I see how this is actually beneficial for > maintainers. Also agreed -- it is particularly useful to teach newcomers and to save time for maintainers having to explain things. Even if a maintainer has a set of email templates for the usual things, it takes time vs. not even having to read the email. Cheers, Miguel
