On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM Aleksander Alekseev <aleksan...@timescale.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
