Re: AUTOSEL process

Eric Biggers
2023-03-01T07:22:59Z

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 07:09:49AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>
> Why would the FAILED emails want to go to a mailing list? If the people
> that were part of making the patch don't want to respond to a FAILED
> email, why would anyone on the mailing list?

The same reason we use mailing lists for kernel development at all instead of
just sending patches directly to the MAINTAINERS.

>
> But hey, I'll be glad to take a change to my script to add that
> functionality if you want to make it, it's here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/scripts/bad_stable
>

Ah, the classic "patches welcome".

Unfortunately, I don't think that can work very well for scripts that are only
ever used by at most two people -- you and Sasha. Many even just by you,
apparently, as I see your name, email address, home directory, etc. hardcoded in
the scripts. (BTW, where are the scripts Sasha uses for AUTOSEL?)

- Eric