Re: Proposal: Make cfbot fail on patches not created by "git format-patch"

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM Aleksander Alekseev
<aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com> wrote:
> In my experience people who have been contributing for some time use
> format-patch and provide at least a draft of the commit message,
> because they know it's more convenient both for the reviewers (the
> patch has better chances to be reviewed and tested), and for the
> authors to rebase the patch after a while. Newcomers sometimes submit
> patches that don't even target the `master` branch, and they don't
> know we have cfbot.

While I don't necessarily disagree with these two endpoints, I also
think there are a number of contributors who occupy a spot somewhere
in between -- and there were _many_ people at the unconference session
who were interested in automatically communicating our community norms
in some way. I think that's enough motivation to try something like
Jelte's latest "quality check" proposal.

--Jacob