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

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 00:44 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 
> The first topic we're trying to address is recruitment. From that point of 
> view, giving as much feedback as possible to newcomers is good as long as we 
> can make the automatic feedback constructive. An automated reply along the 
> lines of
> 
> "You have tried to send a patch through e-mail to the foo at v.k.o mailing list. 
> We have detected that your e-mail includes HTML content. This is not allowed 
> for the reasons explained at [...]. Please configure your e-mail client to 
> send plain text only and resend the patch. Instructions on how to do so far 
> popular e-mail clients can be found at [...]"

Yeah, at the moment I believe 'unacceptable' mail to vger lists just
gets black-holed. Leaving users wondering WTF they did wrong. Or just
wondering why they didn't get any responses.

It would be much nicer to do the same tests at SMTP time, giving the
rejection immediately.

-- 
dwmw2

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