On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 07:11 -0500, Michael Spradling wrote:
> I know it takes more than a day to take a patch in, however I just wanted to know
> a little more about the process. Sorry about the 3 emails. If you look at the
E.g. Documentation/SubmittingPatches has more. Perhaps the LKML-FAQ
(google it, it's easy to find).
> headers you will notice they are all from different email accounts. I had trouble
I didn't notice (and obviously didn't look good enough).
> with my email and I did not see my messages post to the mailing list. Thanks for
That may also take some time as vger.kernel.org hosts quite a few lists
with not so few subscribers and it also depends on the receiving side
(think of e.g. greylisting and/or overloaded spam- and virus-scanners
because of the next spam flood), it may take some time.
Email isn't (and never was) a realtime in any way.
> your advice and input....
And for the future: fullquoting is the most unreadable way to quote
emails (let alone *comment* on the and *review* the contents)[0]. Google
the netiquette - as the URL I know by heart is in German - (even it's
from Usenet/newsgroups) and "learn to quote". SCNR - I always wanted to
write that once;-)
[ Useless fullquote deleted. People can find it via google after a few
hours/days(?) or in their inbox anyways. ]
Bernd
[0]: Think of the possibility that many people - /me included - may
plain simply choose to ignore unreadable and/or not (and/or hardly)
understandable emails. The language barrier may be a small part of
it (and abused as an excuse - no need to excuse, just make it
better the next time) but the more important issue is to make
reading your emails as easy as possible[1].
If the other doesn't have time or motivation to invest 5 minutes in
a cleanly formatted mail with simple and easy to read sentences
because punctuation and spelling is OK, why should I invest 5
minutes to try to decode what that wants to say?
And id the sender invests only 30 minutes to really make sure that
misinterpretations should not happen because every comment is
worded simple, placed at the place where the comment belongs and
irrelevant lines are deleted, that is next to no investment even if
you save only 2 minutes for each reader (because on the more
crowded lists you will have probably have much moire readers than
you thought - even if they don't answer. While I'm at it: "Me
too!" mails are discouraged too - unless explicitly asked).
[1]: For the more commercial/business oriented people: Think of each
email as another type of business card.
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