Re: [PATCH] Add basic b4 config file

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/09/2026 2:28 pm, Baptiste Le Duc wrote:
> b4[1] is a convenient tool for mail-based contribution. A config file[2]
> tracked in the tree lets the project ship a few defaults that match the Xen
> patch submission rules.
>
> This aims to help new contributors who have never used a mailing list avoid
> mistakes when sending their patch series.
>
> The tree has no scripts/checkpatch.pl or equivalent, so there is nothing
> for b4 to run per patch. Disable the needs-checking pre-flight check so a
> series can be sent without first running b4 prep --check.
>
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/b4/
> [2] https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/config.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Baptiste Le Duc <baptiste.le-duc@xxxxxxxxxx>

I don't use b4 for preparing series myself, but I can see how this would
be useful for newcomers.

> ---
>  .b4-config | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/.b4-config b/.b4-config
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..1ca1f0625e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/.b4-config
> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> +#
> +# Common b4 settings for sending patches to the Xen Project upstream.
> +# https://b4.docs.kernel.org/
> +#
> +# See docs/process/sending-patches.pandoc for the patch submission rules
> +# these settings implement.

I doubt people will be reading this file to discover how to send
patches, and that piece of documentation is in the process of moving
into the handbook.

I suggest dropping this sentence.  All that's going to happen to it is
becoming stale shortly.

> +#
> +
> +[b4]
> +     send-series-to = xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +     send-auto-to-cmd = echo
> +     send-auto-cc-cmd = ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats 
> --nogit --nogit-fallback

Where did this come from?   Because it didn't come from Xen's version of
get_maintainers, which is a long way removed from Linux's

~Andrew