Andy Shevchenko wrote: [..] > We have all tags and MAINTAINERS database. How do you know if those who > are in the Cc list are really interested in receiving this? What make me > sure is to have Author of the culprit commit, relevant mailing list and > maintainers, also reviewers and testers, if any. All this information is > available without Cc list. But if you *really* want it, you should > follow the Link tag (for the new commits, for the past ~2+ years) and > harvest it there. And actually I use that Link to reply to the thread > directly. So, again, the Cc list in the commit message is a historical > burden that consumes a lot of time and energy and should be gone in the > future. Andy, this debate is consuming more time and energy than any amount of trimming Cc: lines from commits could save.
