On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:09:34AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig 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. > > Because I don't waste my time on the kind of crap that comes from > github. If you build a separate webinterface that allows anyone to send > a proper series from a git tree that is all fine. But github is toxic. Won't this just end up reimplementing a lot of stuff that we already get "for free" from Github and other forges? Yes, I know Github is proprietary, but so are many SMTP gateways used to send the patch series. I don't see how what the GH bot would do is different from: - a developer uses some proprietary IDE to develop the code - they send patches via their Exchange infrastructure As long as we don't make proprietary or cloud tools any kind of dependency, then we're not painting ourselves into any corners. As I mentioned earlier, I'm also working on a version of the same bot that would work with pull requests generated with "git-request-pull" and convert them into patch series for review -- this would be a suitable alternative for people who aren't interested in using Github. -K
