@marcan @bars
I only ever tried to get (and got!) one patch into the kernel, and was incredibly lucky that it was about a bug I found that Linus introduced himself, so I mostly dealt with him directly and he was extremely friendly in the process, so I didn't get any toxicity.
But that email-based workflow with inline-patches and specially formatted mails that Thunderbird couldn't even create (without an addon) etc was quite painful. There must be a better way..