git send-email friendly smtp provider anyone?

[Noralf Trønnes]

Den 22.11.2022 19.50, skrev Konstantin Ryabitsev:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 06:42:19PM +0100, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>> The first thing that strikes me is that everyone mentioned in one of the
>> patches get the entire patchset, even stable at vger.kernel.org (cc'ed in a
>> fixes patch). The first patch touches a core file and as a result a few
>> drivers, so I've cc'ed the driver maintainers in that patch, but now
>> they get the entire patchset where 5 of 6 patches is about a driver that
>> I maintain. So from their point of view, they see a patchset about a
>> driver they don't care about and a patch touching a core file, but from
>> the subject it's not apparent that it touches their driver. I'm afraid
>> that this might result in none of them looking at that patch. In this
>> particular case it's not that important, but in another case it might be.
> 
> I did some (unscientific) polling among kernel maintainers and, by a vast
> margin, they always prefer to receive the entire series instead of
> cherry-picked patches -- having the entire series helps provide important
> context for the change they are looking at.
> 
> So, this is deliberate and, for now at least, not configurable. Unless you're
> sending 100+ patch series, I doubt anyone will have any problem with receiving
> the whole series instead of individual patches.
> 
>> As for the setting up the web endpoint, should I just follow the b4 docs
>> on that?
>>
>> I use b4 version 0.10.1, is that recent enough?
> 
> Yes. There will be a 0.10.2 in the near future, but the incoming fixes
> shouldn't make much difference for the b4 send code.
> 

This is what I got:

$ b4 send --web-auth-verify <challenge string from email>
Signing challenge
Submitting verification to https://lkml.kernel.org/_b4_submit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/.local/bin/b4", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(cmd())
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/command.py",
line 341, in cmd
    cmdargs.func(cmdargs)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/command.py",
line 86, in cmd_send
    b4.ez.cmd_send(cmdargs)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/ez.py", line
1102, in cmd_send
    auth_verify(cmdargs)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/ez.py", line
188, in auth_verify
    res = ses.post(endpoint, json=req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 590,
in post
    return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 528,
in request
    prep = self.prepare_request(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 456,
in prepare_request
    p.prepare(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 319, in
prepare
    self.prepare_body(data, files, json)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 469, in
prepare_body
    body = complexjson.dumps(json)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
    return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 199, in encode
    chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode
    return _iterencode(o, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 179, in default
    raise TypeError(f'Object of type {o.__class__.__name__} '
TypeError: Object of type bytes is not JSON serializable

$ python3 --version
Python 3.10.6

Turning on debug output didn't add much:

$ b4 -d send --web-auth-verify 7ad470b4-f531-4632-8093-738d4d3e5d88
Running git --no-pager rev-parse --show-toplevel
Running git --no-pager config -z --get-regexp b4\..*
Running git --no-pager config -z --get-regexp gpg\..*
Running git --no-pager config -z --get-regexp user\..*
Signing challenge
Submitting verification to https://lkml.kernel.org/_b4_submit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/.local/bin/b4", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(cmd())
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/command.py",
line 341, in cmd
    cmdargs.func(cmdargs)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/command.py",
line 86, in cmd_send
    b4.ez.cmd_send(cmdargs)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/ez.py", line
1102, in cmd_send
    auth_verify(cmdargs)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/ez.py", line
188, in auth_verify
    res = ses.post(endpoint, json=req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 590,
in post
    return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 528,
in request
    prep = self.prepare_request(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 456,
in prepare_request
    p.prepare(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 319, in
prepare
    self.prepare_body(data, files, json)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 469, in
prepare_body
    body = complexjson.dumps(json)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
    return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 199, in encode
    chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode
    return _iterencode(o, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 179, in default
    raise TypeError(f'Object of type {o.__class__.__name__} '
TypeError: Object of type bytes is not JSON serializable


Noralf.