Re: What is tip-bot?

[Alexander Holler]

Am 19.02.2013 10:54, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Holler <holler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

Regards,

Alexander
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