[Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-audio: Fixed spacing around '&'

Scott Branden
2017-02-27T20:35:52Z

Hi Julia,

On 17-02-26 10:25 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Scott Branden wrote:
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>> On 17-02-26 01:56 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 20:40 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 19:59 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrot
>>>>>>> Mailing lists _should_ be copied on patch submissions.
>>>>>> The idea of outreachy is that it should be a place for people to get
>>>>>> started without too much criticism from the outside. Originally, only
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> outreachy mailing list received patches. But staging maintainers were
>>>>>> confused to have their drivers receiving patches that they had not
>>>>>> seen.
>>>>>> So we expanded it to maintainers.
>>>>>
>>>>> That also doesn't make much sense as patches
>>>>> should not be applied that have not reached
>>>>> a mailing list for review.
>>>>>
>>>>> As long as initial outreachy patches are not
>>>>> applied and are just for internal review by
>>>>> any outside person but the outreachy list and
>>>>> are not be applied by maintainers, then perhaps
>>>>> it's best if neither maintainers nor lists are
>>>>> cc'd on the patches.
>>>>
>>>> The patches are applied by Greg. Greg suggested the policy of adding
>>>> maintainers but not including mailing lists. I'll let him consider
>>>> whether the policy should be changed.
>>>
>>> Well, I will comment on patches sent to the kernel list.
>>>
>>> I'm not subscribed to outreachy and I don't want to be
>>> subscribed to that list either.
>>>
>> I would prefer this outreachy work uses their own mailing list and reviews
>> their patches first. Then once they have everything sorted out they send out
>> the patch series to the proper maintainers/mailing lists. That way we're not
>> spammed with all these emails of people as they are learning how to format and
>> send out proper patches.
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> If you consider that you are getting too much outreachy mail at the
> moment, just let me know what subsystem you want me to add an exception
> for.

The emails seem to mostly be coming with bcm2835-audio.
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> thanks,
> julia

Thanks,
Scott
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