On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 07:43:03AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > A great deal of mailing lists contain numerous protections against > > things like flooding and spamming. One of those protections is a > > check for "Too many recipients to the message". Most of the time this > > simply requires moderator intervention by way of review and approval, > > but this ultimately depends on the ML's configuration. > > > > The first thing to ascertain is why your recipients list is so large. > > Have you added every reviewer, subsystem-maintainer, maintainer and > > contributor suggested by get-maintainer.pl? If so, consider pruning > > that a little. Contributors do not tend to care about subsequent > > changes to a file. As someone who receives a lot of patches, I tend > > to get fed-up when receiving patches simply because I made a change X > > years ago. Stick to listed maintainers/reviewers in the first > > instance and see how far that takes you. > > Thank you for the detailed reply. I did this in the first few patchsets > and then when a few patches didn't get any attention, expanded the > audience thus. Still, around 50% of the patches in this series remain > unreviewed by anyone. This isn't a reason to add more recipients (who are likely to care even less than your original group). However it *is* a good argument for including all of the specified maintainers/reviewers in on all of the patches. > > If your recipients list is as succinct as reasonably possible, maybe > > just accept that every version isn't going to be archived by every > > ML. It's still much more useful for the correct people to have > > visibility into the set than for it to be archived multiple times. > > Thank you, will prune the list and remove past contributors from the > Cc-list and add all parties to all patches. Great. Once you've done that, we can start to help you acquire the Acks you need on your remaining patches. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Linaro Services Technical Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
