Re: Xen 4.6 Development Update (2 WEEKS TO FREEZE, important information in preamble)

[Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>]

Hello Ian, Julien,

On 07/02/2015 11:35 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-01 at 11:17 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>> As suggested by Wei on the top of his mail [1], can you please CC only
>> relevant people and avoid to reply all?
> 
> It seems that many people are unable to follow these simple
> instructions.
> 
> Wei, perhaps you could stop CCing people who inappropriately do not trim
> their quotes or the CC list in the future. If they cannot do us the
> courtesy of doing so I don't see why they should receive a courtesy copy
> of the status mail.
> 
> A somewhat less aggressive approach might be to use Bcc instead Cc for
> the bulk of people (i.e. anyone who needn't be cc-d on every reply). The
> failure case of someone who cannot read simple instructions then becomes
> a lack of CCs rather than a plethora of unwanted Ccs.

First of all, let me apologize for doing this in the past, I'll
certainly remember to not let it happen again.

Second, I'd like to point out that, while I cannot speak for everyone,
and so maybe it's just me, I find this statement: "please trim your
quotes when replying, and also trim the CC list if necessary" a bit
ambiguous.

The quotes part is obvious (and not that many people have ommited to do
that), but to be honest I haven't been clear on who is supposed to be in
the trimmed CC list: the maintainers of the code I'm touching with my
series and Wei? There doesn't seem to be a clear rule about who should
be replied to (or maybe there is and I've missed it? If so, could you
please point it out?). Maybe clearing this up could help with this
problem in the future.


Thanks,
Razvan