Pulling GitHub into the kernel process

There is an ongoing effort to "modernize" the kernel-development process; so far, the focus has been on providing better tools that can streamline the usual email-based workflow. But that "email-based" part has proven to be problematic for some potential contributors, especially those who might want to simply submit a small bug fix and are not interested in getting set up with that workflow. The project-hosting "forge" sites, like GitHub and GitLab, provide a nearly frictionless path for these kinds of one-off contributions, but they do not mesh well—at all, really—with most of mainline kernel development. There is some ongoing work that may change all of that, however.

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