On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 14:57, Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref] wrote:

Lots of those will be false positives, and also I do not want
to sign up to maintain a bot which actively bothers people.

I don't really see the difference between creating a bot that
"actively bothers people" and asking _people_ to run a script and then
re-send the patch to actively bother the exact same people.

They'd get bothered either way.

At least with the bot, they can opt out of the automation.

Sidebar, but IMO we should work on lore to create a way to *subscribe*
to patches based on paths without running any local agents.

I already contacted Konstantin to see how hard it would be to change
patchwork-bot scripting, and he's trawling this thread.

Maybe he will just go "the code already does all the patch detection
and looks up pathnames in them anyway, and we already maintain a list
of people who do not want to be bothered, it would be easy to add the
'please bother me for these paths' script too".

             Linus