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[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:06:06AM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 10:57 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry, I'm not trying to discourage people. I didn't know this was documented as
> > the 'suitable' way. I don't think it is :-).
> 
> I'm sorry you feel that way, this is the first I've heard about it.  
> 
> The previous position of the team was that we wanted external
> contributors and we wanted to make it easy for them.  

Still the position :-).

> In particular this is currently the most practical way for external
> contributors to run our testsuite, as it is trigged into travis-ci
> automatically.  
> 
> > > In the meantime I'm working to get a better arrangement working for
> > > gitlab.com which I hope will better address your legitimate software
> > > freedom concerns. 
> > 
> > My issues with the github method at the moment is the flood
> > of emails it generates, which makes it almost impossible to
> > pick out the actual patch someone wants me to look at.
> 
> The script is maintained at:
> 
> https://github.com/abartlet/gh-mailinglist-notifications
> 
> (on github, naturally ;-)
> 
> The root folks can get you access to the account the bot runs in.
> 
> > If it only sent *one* message including the patch I'd probably
> > stop moaning about software freedom and be more inclined to
> > just look at it (sorry, human nature there :-).
> 
> Patches are welcome, and you can certainly talk to me about it.  Please
> don't complain to our contributors, they don't control the bot. 

Fair enough. I'll save off this info in case I ever get
irritated enough to try and fix it.

But in the meantime I hope we transition contributors off github and
onto samba-technical for contributing patches as quickly as possible :-).

Jeremy.