Re: Sashiko review emails to the list

[Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>]

Hey,

On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 03:19:05PM +0100, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I really like Sashiko and find it very useful. It's flagged real bugs
> in series I and others have posted to the list (e.g. [1][2][3]), and I
> run it locally before sending, which has saved me a few respins.
> 
> That said, it's been posting a lot lately, so it seemed worth asking
> how the review emails to the list are working out, and whether we
> should change anything.

So this is entirely my fault since I added the email configuration for
the kvmarm list. Sashiko has been finding some truly nasty bugs, posting
on-list is the easiest way to get attention from the right folks to get
things fixed.

With that being said, the signal to noise ratio hasn't been ideal.

> These fixes will take a while to land, so the question is what to do
> meanwhile. Some options, and surely others:
> 
>   - Leave it as-is while the fixes propagate.
>   - Stop the emails but keep the reviews on sashiko.dev, so people can
> look rather than have them pushed.
>   - Disable the emails until the noise is down to a reasonable level,
> then re-enable.

This sounds like the right approach. I'd like to re-enable emails once
we're happy with the quality of reviews.

On another note: Roman, is it possible to separately report pre-existing
issues from findings in a patch? Maintainers have a higher likelihood of
caring about these than individual contributors anyway.

Thanks,
Oliver