linux-kernel - Re: What is tip-bot?

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Message-ID: <512402A7.9020500@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:54:31 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
CC:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What is tip-bot?

On 02/19/2013 02:36 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 19.02.2013 10:54, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger:
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Holler
>> <holler@...oftware.de> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> until now I could successfully suppress my curiosity about those tip:foo
>>> messages, but as the bot (or one of them) has now catched me too, I
>>> want to
>>> ask what it is.
>>>
>>> Searching for "tip(-)bot" or similiar doesn't reveal some useful info
>>> (for
>>> obvious reasons). Could someone give me an URL to source or
>>> documentation
>>> about that tool so that I can enlight myself about it's meaning?
>>
>> AFAIK tip-bot is a set of shell scripts used by _T_glx, _I_ngo and
>> _P_eter. :)
>>
>
> So messages from tip-bot are just acknowledgments (like those from Greg)
> that a patch has found it's way into one of the trees, with the
> difference that tip-bot sends those acknowledgments to lkml too, whereas
> Greg's scripts send them only to involved parties and not the lkml?

Yes, that is my understanding of it.

-- 
~Randy
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