[Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v2] staging: mt7621-dma: Add braces around else branches

[julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall)]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:45:44PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> > Hi Kiberly,
> >
> > Thanks for adding all the emails in CC.
> > I would encourage you for your next patch to distinguish between CC and TO.
> > You should send your patch TO important maintainers in the get_maintainers.pl
> > list (as default, to all of them). If there is someone you really want to look
> > into the patch, then add him/her in TO as well.
> >
> > Put the rest (people and mailing lists) in CC. Why? Some people filter their
> > mails so that they can concentrate on the mails they got send directly and look
> > on mails they are in CC with lower priority (maybe not at all, because there are
> > too much?). So it is important to have the maintainers in the TO list and not in CC.
>
> +1
>
> I'm glad that there's someone else in the Linux community that agrees
> with me on this point, and is willing to speak out about it.

If it's an important point, perhaps it should be mentioned in
submitting-patches.rst?  There is a mention of the Cc tag, but no
indication of who to put in CC.

julia