From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752765Ab0IJLEk (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:04:40 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:56222 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752243Ab0IJLEj (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:04:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:04:31 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Florian Mickler Cc: Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , "Stephen Hemminger (role:commit_signer)" , "Wolfram Sang (role:commit_signer)" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Message-ID: <20100910110425.GD23903@sirena.org.uk> References: <1284111212-10659-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1284111767.1783.35.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20100910123040.5a6f0128@schatten.dmk.lab> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100910123040.5a6f0128@schatten.dmk.lab> X-Cookie: Here there be tygers. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:30:40PM +0200, Florian Mickler wrote: > People that get angered by being cc'd a lot as commit_signers can always > filter their mail for that. > But I don't think it is the major part of kernel hackers that get angry > when they are cc'd. Most kernel hackers _love_ getting mail, or not? :) > At least they should. Consider what happens if someone does lots of kernel wide changes or generic code cleanup work like the pattern matching cleanups. As someone who gets some of this sort of stuff I find it's quite confusing when I get patches sent to me and I have to figure out what I'm supposed to do about them. > I think the --git thing is great, as it really get's patches into the > kernel vs letting them rot on some mailinglist. It's a very useful tool - the issue is with people not realising that it's not infalible and taking the results blindly.