Re: [PATCH QEMU HCI-8.0] b4: ship project defaults in .b4-config

[Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>]

On 8/28/26 2:16 PM, Vasileios Almpanis wrote:
> b4 fetches series from lore.kernel.org by default. To use it with our
> list archive at lore.virtuozzo.com every developer had to set the same
> handful of b4.* git config keys, plus two more to get the right
> recipients on "b4 send" and one for the subject prefix.
> 
> b4 loads a .b4-config at the top of the tree as defaults for commands
> run inside it, so put the archive URL masks, the default recipients and
> the default subject prefix there.
> 
> https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-142960
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasileios Almpanis <vasileios.almpanis@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>  .b4-config | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.b4-config b/.b4-config
> index 126f503ded7..c8afd7b3e61 100644
> --- a/.b4-config
> +++ b/.b4-config
> @@ -4,10 +4,13 @@
>  #
>  
>  [b4]
> -    send-series-to = qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> +    send-series-to = "Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>"
> +    send-series-cc = svt-core@virtuozzo.com

I like the default better, i.e. --to is the list, --cc is the
maintainer(s).  I'll adjust it myself.

> +    send-prefixes = "QEMU HCI-8.0"
>      send-auto-to-cmd = echo
>      send-auto-cc-cmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback
>      am-perpatch-check-cmd = scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --terse --no-summary --mailback -
>      prep-perpatch-check-cmd = scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --terse --no-summary --mailback -
> -    searchmask = https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/?x=m&t=1&q=%s
> -    linkmask = https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/%s
> +    midmask = http://lore.virtuozzo.com/%s
> +    searchmask = http://lore.virtuozzo.com/all/?x=m&t=1&q=%s

I'm wondering isn't it better to explicitly specify /qemu here?  It'll
probably make the search faster.

Andrey

> +    linkmask = http://lore.virtuozzo.com/%s
> 
> ---
> base-commit: c8606682c5168c07badb55aebaa55a05db1d5376
> change-id: 20260828-b4-a3aaa05eb6aa
>