Yocto Project lore: New mailing list tools
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Tags: conference-talk, yocto
I gave a short talk on using the lore.kernel.org public inbox instance with Yocto Project at the Yocto Project Summit 2021.11.
Slides from this talk are available in PDF format.
Abstract
This short talk will present the new tools we can make use of now that the Yocto Project mailing list is mirrored to lore.kernel.org. The b4 tool will be introduced and a demo will be given of how this tool can be used to quickly apply patches from the mailing list to a local repository, show differences between patch versions and autogenerate thank you messages. The talk will also briefly touch on the patatt patch attestation tool which can be used to cryptographically sign patches sent via a mailing list.
Recently the Yocto Project & OpenEmbedded mailing lists have been added to the lore.kernel.org public-inbox server. This allows us to make use of new tools developed within the Linux kernel community to simplify the process of reviewing, testing and accepting patches submitted via mailing lists. This talk is presented in the hope that these tools can become more widely used within the Yocto Project community now that they are available, hopefully making life easier for maintainers!