On 04/10/2022 17:27, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
You are not _required_ to run get_maintainer to submit a patch, it is simply _suggested_ so in my view the output of get_maintainer doesn't negate the statement that you must mail at least one public mailing list.
And similarly, saying in a subsequent paragraph that you should always mail at last one public mailing list is unnecessarily disregarding information returned by get_maintainer.
get_maintainer produces a list of text that is very helpful to a developer in deciding where to send a patch. Documenting that output directly is a help.
But unless/until get_maintainer is _required_ to be run on any given patch, then we should still have a standalone paragraph which explicitly states a public mailing list must receive the patch.
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