On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:42:49PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> I personally would very welcome a facility that'd send out an e-mail if a 
> new commit is pushed to a git.kernel.org repo branch (sort of what tip-bot 
> and akpm's scripts are doing these days) to automatically notify the patch 
> author that the patch has been merged and pushed out.

Those are useful, I know Greg has one and I just wrote one too.  I'm not
sure it needs to be on the server side though, they can also be done
from the client which lets you try to fine tune things more readily.