V6: - Drops distinction between dedicated and non-dedicated mailing lists - I appreciate Akria's concern on keeping the text concise but OTOH I think we should call out supporters and reviewers as well as the mailing list(s) produced by get_maintainer as mail addresses which ought to be mailed. A little bit of extra text should hopefully help others get the right list of recipients, with the least amount of additional text added as possible. V5: - Drops get_maintainer.pl removal of supporter - Joe Perches - Back to one standalone Documentation change - Krzysztof's suggested list RESEND: + Akira V4: - Change the subject line of the series Previous: Expand get_maintainer to be explicit about supporters https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220930064629.329514-1-bryan.odonoghue@xxxxxxxxxx/t/ - Update get_maintainer.pl to return "maintainer" for both "S: Supported" and "S: Maintained" - Theodore Tso For the purposes of sending a patch whether or not the maintainer is listed as volunteer or paid is not really useful information. Listing both as "maintainer" is clearer the end user. - Incorporate Krzysztof's list of recipients into Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. - I didn't include the get_mainainter.pl example. Comments from both Akira and Joe suggest to me the example is not that useful. - get_maintainer will no longer produce "supporter" so one could argue that the documentation shouldn't refer to supporters however not all of the potential output strings are documented and I've opted not to document "chief penguin" either. I'd like to focus on the particular case of supporters with some reasonable knock-on documentation tweaks for the obvious gaps we've identified in our discussion because "supporter" really means "maintainer" and you absolutely have to mail that person to get your patch into the right inbox. V3: - Drops change to get_maintainer.pl - Theodore - Rewords around `get_maintainer --nogit-fallback` and gives an example I think the document text now is clearer and should be more helpful to others in getting their minimum submission list right every time. V2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220928003006.230103-1-bryan.odonoghue@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u - Documentation/process Added in text to also make clear subsystem mailing list should be included - Krzysztof - Changed get_maintainer.pl to print maintainer[supporter] or maintainer[volunteer] depending on MAINTAINERS file. - Thorsten/Bryan - Choose supporter and volunteer instead of supported and volunteer Supporter and volunteer describe the role of the person whereas supported and volunteer would describe an activity and a role which isn't consistent. - Thorsten/Bryan - I didn't change Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst This file doesn't mention get_maintainer.pl and I was mostly aiming to fixup the process around get_maintainer.pl. - Thorsten - Myself and Thorsten discussed changing get_maintainer.pl, how it seems like a desirable thing to do but also that "it might break scripts for people" and it might. I don't know if get_maintainer.pl is or should be considered to be a stable interface and an explicit software contract but, making it clear a supporter is also a maintainer seems like the right thing to do from a transmission of information perspective. There is still the option of just updating Documentation/process in isolation. V1: - Sent a standalone change to Documentation/process stating get_maintainer.pl email addresses marked "supporter" should be included in a patch run. Bryan O'Donoghue (1): Documentation/process: Be more explicit about who to mail on patch submission Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.37.3
