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My man, those tools are great and I really respect the contribution of those tools to the community. But here's the kernel guidelines, which I am sure you are a
by chomp 6y ago
My man, those tools are great and I really respect the contribution of those tools to the community. But here's the kernel guidelines, which I am sure you are already familiar with: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-pa...
Even with the tooling you provided, it's still a crappy experience (maybe a little less with the Sourcehut stuff). I know it's easy to read into the comments and be like "well this person just wants to shove the kernel into Microsoft's product," but it doesn't have to be this way. The sad thing is, for better or for worse, Github can handle almost all of those steps in the patch submission process, save for the ones where you have to actually describe what's changing. that's like, 15 steps that a newcomer does not have to even deal with.
I think we all agree on "No Linux Kernel controlled by Microsoft platforms, please" but Sarah's comments that "this workflow sucks", and then your actions on "this workflow sucks" - y'all are saying the same thing.
- ddevault 6y agoThese "15 steps" are 90% unrelated to the email workflow, and would not be solved by GitHub. Did you read this document? It's telling you how to be a good contributor and the mechanics of how to contribute. That being said, this documentation is sorely in need of a git-oriented overhaul, assuming the programmer isn't using git is not doing any favors for the 99% who are.