RFE: use patchwork to submit a patch

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Sat Oct 12 11:08:39 AEDT 2019


On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 19:00:09 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> wrote:

> > > > As someone who has to deal with a corporate busted mail server.
> > > > I agree mailing patches is a barrier to entry for many people today.    
> > >
> > > Hmm, and I wonder what company fosters so many issues with doing that
> > > today? :-/
> > >
> > > /me notices that Stephen uses his personal email account ;-)    
> > 
> > Your current employer also defaults to a crappy link replacer on most emails :-)  
> 
> Yes, because they use Stephen's employer's crappy email servers.

Yes, my life is too short to fight with corporate stuff.
There is a security first mindset which is good but gets in the way.
The current generation of Internet standard mail protocols does not have enough security to be allowed.

It does bring up that any new workflow has to have security protocol
and threat model as part of its design.


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