Re: What is tip-bot?

[Randy Dunlap]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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~Randy
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