On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:45:44PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote: > > Hi Kiberly, > > > > Thanks for adding all the emails in CC. > > I would encourage you for your next patch to distinguish between CC and TO. > > You should send your patch TO important maintainers in the get_maintainers.pl > > list (as default, to all of them). If there is someone you really want to look > > into the patch, then add him/her in TO as well. > > > > Put the rest (people and mailing lists) in CC. Why? Some people filter their > > mails so that they can concentrate on the mails they got send directly and look > > on mails they are in CC with lower priority (maybe not at all, because there are > > too much?). So it is important to have the maintainers in the TO list and not in CC. > > +1 > > I'm glad that there's someone else in the Linux community that agrees > with me on this point, and is willing to speak out about it. If it's an important point, perhaps it should be mentioned in submitting-patches.rst? There is a mention of the Cc tag, but no indication of who to put in CC. julia _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
