Better tools for kernel developers

Eh. I found the *submission* to be trivial (I use mutt as my daily mail driver though, so the stuff Cyberax lamented was handled by my stock setup years ago). Visibility into its *status* is what *really* sucks. Has it been triaged? Ignored? Lost in the firehose? I only get feedback when some step is complete (CI, review, etc.). I'd like to see CI results as they're happening. I'd like to have a nice way of collating the review feedback instead of having to wrangle and manage it myself (e.g., trailer collation, a tiny TODO list from comments). Tracking patch review versions is hard since (apparently) maintainers prefer fresh threads for each patchset version. Is the patchset I'm looking at the latest edition? If not, can I get a link to it? Reverse links would be nice as well.

I understand why things are the way they are, but incremental improvement is possible. I've discussed this before[1] on here[2].

[1]https://lwn.net/Articles/803696/
[2]https://lwn.net/Articles/807136/