Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>]

Em Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:50:23 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> escreveu:

> Hi Christoph,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:18 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:58:05AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:  
> > > > > specifically).  The only problem is that people tend to omit context,
> > > > > because they assume that you see the code or previous messages that they
> > > > > see in the web interface, which you do not.  
> > > >
> > > > The major problem with github is that as far as I can tell there is no
> > > > way to interact with it without creating an account.  
> > >
> > > Well, the same happens with moderated mailing lists. There are a
> > > lot of them:
> > >       $ git grep moderated MAINTAINERS|wc -l
> > >       221  
> >
> > Note that moderated doesn't mean that it always rejects non-subscribers.
> > For example I post to linux-arm-kernel frequently, and my mails always
> > seem to make it through with a delay.  

Yeah, same happens to me. I stopped receiving emails from several such
lists. Not sure if I ended by subscribing to it (in order to actively
participate on some discussions) or if my email was simply whitelisted.

> linux-arm-kernel is a gateway to many maintainers, most of them will take
> your patches fine.
> 
> But if it is for core ARM, it still has to be submitted to the ARM patch system
> separately.

Provided that get_maintainers.pl gets it, and someone will manually
whitelist either my e-mail or my patch on an eventual patch
submission, no issues with that.

Thanks,
Mauro