On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 19:59 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrote: > > > Mailing lists _should_ be copied on patch submissions. > > > > The idea of outreachy is that it should be a place for people to get > > started without too much criticism from the outside. Originally, only the > > outreachy mailing list received patches. But staging maintainers were > > confused to have their drivers receiving patches that they had not seen. > > So we expanded it to maintainers. > > That also doesn't make much sense as patches > should not be applied that have not reached > a mailing list for review. > > As long as initial outreachy patches are not > applied and are just for internal review by > any outside person but the outreachy list and > are not be applied by maintainers, then perhaps > it's best if neither maintainers nor lists are > cc'd on the patches. The patches are applied by Greg. Greg suggested the policy of adding maintainers but not including mailing lists. I'll let him consider whether the policy should be changed. > And the link you sent is for newbies, not for > outreachy. The link is part of the outreachy tutorial, which is hosted by the kernelnewbies website. julia > > The "don't cc lists" --nol use is inappropriate > there. > > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
