[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance

[Tim.Bird at sony.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konstantin Ryabitsev 
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 05:42:57PM +0000, Tim.Bird at sony.com wrote:
> >> So, what if we imagine that there's an imaginary web tool that does
> >> this:
> >>
> >> 1. Allows people to generate an account
> >> 2. Verifies their email address
> >> 3. Instructs people how to generate a patch or series of patches
> >> 4. Gives a way to upload generated patches
> >> 5. Runs checkpatch to make sure there are no errors
> >> 6. Runs get_maintainer to find out where the patch(es) should be sent to
> >> 7. (Does more imaginary magic, such as looking up message-id references)
> >> 8. Mails it out
> >>
> >> Would that be useful or solve any problems? Or would that, on the
> >> contrary, create more problems than it solves?
> >
> >Konstantin,
> >
> >I feel like this thread re-converged and you proposed the exact thing I just
> >expressed interest in to Linus.  You were probably writing your message at
> >the same time I was writing mine.  Wow!
> >
> >Personally, I feel this would be a GREAT thing.
> 
> Okay, tacking on some more imaginary features on top of this, let's say
> it also had a way to add a remotely hosted git tree to your account,
> e.g.:
> 
> https://github.com/somecorp/linux-corpfidget.git alias corpfidget
> 
> It could then offer a CLI utility to issue a command like this using the
> https API:
> 
> vapor-git-thingy -g corpfidget -r 1234abcd..5678dcba -v2 -c coverletter.txt
> 
> That would do the same as the above, plus do the patch generation
> itself...
> 
> Okay, I think I might be able to scrape up funding to get this built
> once I put this into a more presentable form.
That would be great!

This could help solve a lot of e-mail issues that contributors have, but also
I'm very interested in step 5 - the testing aspect.  I would like to be involved in
discussions of the design of that step, so we could plug lots of different tests
in, at the request of various sub-system maintainers.  I maintain the Fuego
test system, so I'd be interested in making available our test suites for that
step.

Please let me know if there's some opportunity to follow up with you on this
( ie, a list where this might be discussed in more detail, or an event where we
could talk face-to-face).

Thanks,
 -- Tim