Better tools for kernel developers

> Enabling easier contributions from relative newbies is laudable, but if that requires you to kneecap your most productive folks by making their highly refined workflows unworkable, they're going to resist you, and for good reason.
So an email gateway should probably be provided for them. But it's probably a good idea to recognize that the very specialized kernel workflow is a significant barrier.

> Another way of looking at it is that if you want to develop Linux kernel code, you need to use Linux kernel tools and workflows.
I actually developed a non-trivial kernel module in MS VS a while ago, using a third-party tool for GDB integration and remote debugging and editing...

The inverse is also doable, with MinGW+gcc you can compile binaries for Windows on Linux (and run them with WINE).