On Mon 2017-03-20 11:30:08, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:20:32AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > > Hah! That's the joy of being a maintainer of a driver in staging. Even > > > > > if you filter out outreachy, you are going to get a lot of "basic > > > > > mistakes" and other type patches cc:ed to you. > > > > > > > > > > I strongly suggest, that if you all don't like this type of stuff, > > > > > either: > > > > > - work to get the code out of staging as soon as possible (i.e. > > > > > send me coding style fixes for everything right now, and then > > > > > fix up the rest of the stuff.) > > > > > - take yourself off the maintainer list for this code. > > > > > > > > > > It's your choice, outreachy right now is a lot of patches, but again, > > > > > it's not going to keep you from getting the "basic" stuff sent to you > > > > > in ways that is totally wrong. > > > > > > > > Could we get these trivial patches off the lkml? Yes, lkml already has > > > > a lot of traffic, but no, this is not useful :-(. > > > > > > The outreachy instructions say to use the -nol argument to > > > get_maintainers, which would prevent them from being sent to any mailing > > > list. However others thought that all patches should be sent to mailing > > > lists, and so I haven't enforced anything for people who have omitted > > > -nol. However I have tried to remove bcm maintainers from CC lists on > > > replies and reminded people not to send you patches, > > > > Wonderful :-(. > > > > Can we at least make those people put the word "outreachy" in the > > subject so the emails are easier to delete? > > It's easy for you to filter away as-is if you want to to by just looking > at the cc: list for outreachy right now, don't make a new step for > people to jump through because you don't want to be bothered. You only > have 10 more days of it if you want to just ignore any patch until > then... 10 more days... I can survive 10 more days. I was afraid we would be stuck with it "forever". Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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