Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:14:33 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: What is tip-bot? |
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On 02/19/13 16:54, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 19.02.2013 23:54, schrieb Randy Dunlap: >> On 02/19/2013 02:36 AM, Alexander Holler wrote: >>> Am 19.02.2013 10:54, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger: >>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Holler >>>> <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> until now I could successfully suppress my curiosity about those >>>>> tip:foo >>>>> messages, but as the bot (or one of them) has now catched me too, I >>>>> want to >>>>> ask what it is. >>>>> >>>>> Searching for "tip(-)bot" or similiar doesn't reveal some useful info >>>>> (for >>>>> obvious reasons). Could someone give me an URL to source or >>>>> documentation >>>>> about that tool so that I can enlight myself about it's meaning? >>>> >>>> AFAIK tip-bot is a set of shell scripts used by _T_glx, _I_ngo and >>>> _P_eter. :) >>>> >>> >>> So messages from tip-bot are just acknowledgments (like those from Greg) >>> that a patch has found it's way into one of the trees, with the >>> difference that tip-bot sends those acknowledgments to lkml too, whereas >>> Greg's scripts send them only to involved parties and not the lkml? >> >> Yes, that is my understanding of it. >> > > Thanks a lot for clarification. > > In the meanwhile I've found an article at lwn about the kernel development process which lists many of the git repositories used by various maintainers. And that list includes tip. ;) > > So the reason for my ignorance was that I didn't know that tip is actually the name of a git repository used by the x86 maintainers.
I can understand that.
The kernel tree MAINTAINERS file says for X86:
X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT) M: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> M: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> M: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> M: x86@kernel.org T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/core S: Maintained F: Documentation/x86/ F: arch/x86/
-- ~Randy
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