[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)

[James Bottomley]

On Sat, 2015-08-01 at 20:16 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:22 PM, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley at hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 15:09 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> >> Le 16/07/2015 18:52, Steven Rostedt a écrit :
> >> > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:24:56 -0700
> >> > Tim Bird <tim.bird at sonymobile.com> wrote:
> >> >> That's really good feedback.  I've often assumed that if you saw something
> >> >> that needed fixing, you had a responsibility to properly format a patch
> >> >> so as not to burden the maintainer.  I've labeled my own "best-effort,
> >> >> but-probably-not-mainlinable" patches as [RFC PATCH..].  Would it be
> >> >> worth having a convention for that sort of thing?
> >> >
> >> > At a minimum, the patch should not be html, an attachment, nor have
> >> > broken whitespace where the patch doesn't apply. But other than that,
> >>
> >> Le me just react on the "no attachment" statement:
> >>
> >> As a maintainer, I accept patches as attachments, rework them and
> >> properly submit them.
> >> For a newcomer, it's sometimes very difficult to find a way to send
> >> patches with git or using a "patch/plain-text-friendly" SMTP server.
> >
> > Just a me-too on this.  Sometime attachments are the only way to get
> > undamaged patches through an exchange server which a lot of companies
> > who submit drivers force their employees to use.  Accepting them isn't a
> > hardship: git-am actually processes attachments perfectly well.
> >
> > Also git am --whitespace=fix manages to correct most broken whitespace
> > issues.  I usually remember to add it, but perhaps it should be the
> > default?
> >
> > We've just had long discussions about using tools to help newcomers,
> > let's actually not cause problems over things our tools already cope
> > with.
> 
> Applying attached patches is one thing.
> Adding inline review comments is something different.

Every mail tool I know can quote from attachments.  One of the side
benefits is that reply-all doesn't, so you actually have to quote the
section you're commenting on instead of, say, doing reply-all to a 1,000
line patch with a single comment on line 745, which is a real pain for a
maintainer ...

James