[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] services needed from kernel.org infrastructure

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:42:49PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> I think it'd be useful to have a session where maintainers could come up 
> with feature / improvement requests for kernel.org infrastructure and have 
> a subsequent discussion about whether they would be generally useful.

I suggest people just email users at linux.kernel.org. :) I've always
solicited such conversations, but in my previous experience these tend
to fall into two categories:

1. "Here's a minor suggestion that could be kinda cool, whenever you
   have some time."
2. "Here's a radical idea that would require a park of 1,000 various
   hardware systems and a dedicated staff of 10 people."

There doesn't appear to be a lot that falls between these two
categories. This is not to say that #2 is not possible, it's just that
we have to operate within LF budget constraints and people never tend to
follow such grand requests with "and here's my $EMPLOYER who's happy to
fund this initiative." If you do happen to be in such a position, then
I'll be happy to get you in touch with the Collab Projects management
team.

> Let me start with my personal wish:
> 
> I personally would very welcome a facility that'd send out an e-mail if a 
> new commit is pushed to a git.kernel.org repo branch (sort of what tip-bot 
> and akpm's scripts are doing these days) to automatically notify the patch 
> author that the patch has been merged and pushed out.

We have the following script running on torvalds/linux.git:
http://ur1.ca/n2iof

It has two downsides:

1. It sends an email per each commit, which tends to thrash the lists
   (e.g. see https://marc.info/?l=git-commits-head where Linus's tree goes)
2. It doesn't fork into background while doing that, so you have to wait
   for it to finish sending the emails.

If that's fine with you all, I can enable this for other repos as well.
All I'd need would be the destination list address.

> Suggested attendance: Konstantin, maintainers :)

I'll be at the summit.

Best,
-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Linux Foundation Collab Projects
Montréal, Québec
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