Re: Patch pre-submission to Sashiko

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 17/10/2026 19:28, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> [ in the spirit of the concluding discussion at this year's maintainers 
>   summit,  I'm using this list outside of actual maintainer summit 
>   planning :) ]
> 
> I have just received a v1 to v11 patchset submission within roughly one 
> day timeframe.
> 
> Neither myself nor anyone else did comment with any review feedback, 
> except for Sashiko. Which I believe is what triggered all the immediate 
> resubmissions.
> 
> I don't think this is sustanable.

I think it might be fine to drop usual expectation of one patchset per
24h as long as maintainers can completely ignore patchsets with Sashiko
replies.

If people want to keep bouncing the ball between them and Sashiko, they
should be allowed and then we should be allowed just to silence that
email thread completely.

> 
> The idea of throttling Sashiko's responses was gently nibbled at the 
> summit, and might be one of the options how to deal with this.
> 
> Another option I'd like to propose would be to introduce a way for 
> submitters to run patches through back-and-forth with Sashiko even before 
> properly submitting the Sashiko-polished v1 to maintainers and 
> mailinglists.

I assume you mean they will be running it through Sashiko
infrastructure, so using sponsored tokens. Otherwise that possibility is
already there - you can run Sashiko, just a matter of money.

Best regards,
Krzysztof