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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] New Linux Patch Review Group
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On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Boaz Harrosh <openosd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/01/2014 05:41 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> During last week's Collab summit, Jon Corbet suggested we use the power
>> of social media to improve the Linux kernel patch review process.
>>
>> We thought this was a great idea, and have been experimenting with a new
>> Facebook group dedicated to patch discussion and review. The new group
>> provides a dramatically improved development workflow, including:
>>
>> * One click patch or comment approval
>> * Comments enhanced with pictures and video
>> * Who has seen your patches and comments
>> * Searchable index of past submissions
>> * A strong community without anonymous flames
>>
>> To help capture the group discussion in the final patch submission,
>> we suggest adding a Liked-by: tag to commits that have been through
>> group review.
>>
>> To use the new group, please join:
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/linuxpatches/
>>
>> Once you've joined, you can post patches in the group, or email patches to
>> linuxpatches@groups.facebook.com
>>
>> -chris
>
> NACK! I do not have facebook and I do not like patches to be discussed
> behind my back. On the mailing list we don't even want HTML with bold
> lettered words so no thanks facebook adds nothing
>
> Please obliterate this bad idea.

So for those that don't use Facebook, we're also setting up a twitter
account that tweets patches 140 characters at a time. This should
help with review by automatically splitting up patches into manageable
140 character chunks.

josh

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