Em Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:56:44 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:57:28AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > +Patches for the media subsystem should be sent to the media mailing list > > > > +at linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as plain text only e-mail. Emails with > > > > +HTML will be automatically rejected by the mail server. There's no need > > > > +to copy the maintainer or sub-maintainer(s). > > > > > > There's too much traffic on mailing lists for me to follow everything, I > > > much prefer being CC'ed on patches. > > > > Well, by using patchwork, the best is to take a look on it at least for > > the patches that you're interested. You could script something using > > pwclient in order to make it easier. > > > > Anyway, not sure if the other sub-maintainers see the same way. From my side, > > I prefer not to be c/c, as this is just more noise, as I just rely on > > patchwork for media patches. What about changing this to: > > > > Patches for the media subsystem should be sent to the media mailing list > > at linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as plain text only e-mail. Emails with > > HTML will be automatically rejected by the mail server. It could be wise > > to also copy the sub-maintainer(s). > > The documentation should say "Use get_maintainer.pl" and do what it > says. Everything else is too complicated. Works for me. > Occasionally staging maintainers will complain that they aren't CC'd > even though the staging/driver/README says to CC them and I am tell them > "No, the responsibility is for you to add yourself to MAINTAINERS. It > doesn't matter what the documentation says, you messed up so you need to > stop getting annoyed with newbies for not reading the documentation when > it's your fault you weren't CC'd." > > When I sent a patch, I use get_maintainer.pl then I add whoever the > wrote the commit from the Fixes tag. Then I remove Colin King and Kees > Cook from the CC list because they worked all over the tree and I know > them. I also normally remove LKML if there is another mailing list but > at least one subsystem uses LKML for patchwork so this isn't safe. I use get_maintainer.pl myself, but when submitting some patches (like documentation ones), I need to manually clean the list, as it is not uncommon to have a really long c/c list. > > So the safest instructions are "Use get_matainer.pl and add the person > who wrote the commit in the Fixes tag". > > regards, > dan carpenter > > > _______________________________________________ > Ksummit-discuss mailing list > Ksummit-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummit-discuss Thanks, Mauro
