On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 12:32:35AM +0800, WangYuli wrote: > Hi, > > I've reviewed the Contributor Covenant and the Linux Kernel Contributor > Covenant Code of Conduct Interpretation, and I couldn't find anything > suggesting that CCing a large number of people is "unfriendly". This is unrelated, it's a matter of basic social interactions and respect of others' time. > And while I don't believe my actions were malicious, I understand your > concern. > > Going forward, I'll be more considerate of the recipients when sending > emails and will avoid CCing more than a hundred people at once in similar > situations. "More than a hundred" ? Are you serious ? For what purpose ? I'll explain you something related to how people consume e-mails: the first thing they do if they hesitate to process it is to check if someone else in the To or Cc is more knowledgeable or legitimate than them. If so they often prefer to let others deal with it. With such a large list, it's impossible to check all other addresses and virtually *everyone* will consider that surely one of the hundreds of others is more legitimate. So the more people you add, the less likely anyone will handle your request. The common rules that apply here are not made out of nowhere but based on what works best. Just send to the most relevant outputs of get_maintainer, wait for one week and if you get no response it's just that these people were busy and forgot about you, so just kindly ping again to make sure your message was received. With such a large community it's normal to lose some messages, and pinging again is normally not considered as an offence so that's fine. If you get no response after multiple attempts, it might mean there's something annoying in your message (like sending to tens or hundreds of people at once). And really, when a script tells you "send your message to these 3 people" and you send it to 191, how can you imagine the recipients will think anything different from "this person feels super important to spam everyone like this". Why would they even respond if they feel like you consider you have the right to spam everyone in hope to get your orders processed immediately ? I'm pretty sure that the majority will just let it rot by principle. Good luck, Willy
