Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Linux Patch Review Group

[Richard Weinberger]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Christian Stroetmann
<stroetmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 01.April.2014 17:55, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 11:40:16AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/01/2014 11:16 AM, Boaz Harrosh 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>> -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.
>>>>
>>>> (And I do not have Facebook shares or care to)
>>>
>>> It's always hard to move on to new technologies. But at some point we
>>> have
>>> to recognize that the internet has developed a rich culture that the
>>> kernel
>>> community isn't taking full advantage of.
>>>
>>> I certainly don't expect everyone to convert right away, but there's a
>>> whole
>>> world out there beyond port 25.
>>
>> Agreed
>>
>> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi<balbi@xxxxxx>
>>
>> We might even be able to "recruit" a much more diverse group of
>> reviewers who are undiscovered as of now ;-)
>>
> Sorry, but definitely: Nack!!!

We (the majority of the Linux maintainers) voted already on fb.com to
make it out primary developing eco system
and will abandon LKML starting with April 1st.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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