From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Martin Gebert <martin.gebert@alpha-bit.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated?
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:15:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080719071502.GB7558@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4880AD07.2070509@alpha-bit.de>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:47:35PM +0200, Martin Gebert wrote:
>> I'd like to remind people of the wiki page on this topic at
>>
>> http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Mailing-patches
>>
>> It's not been updated in a while and doesn't cover all clients or
>> possible solutions so feel free to update it.
>>
> Which brings me to a question I've been wondering for some days now: Is
> the [PATCH] prefix in the subject mandatory for a patch proposal being
> noticed by the maintainers?
That's simply a question of working style and mail volume of the maintainer.
In the past I used to miss patches that were not sent to me directly at
times. I solved that by filtering for patches using procmail. But that
scheme also has its shortcomings; it would miss patches being sent in
too creative MIME encodings but people aren't supposed to do that anyway.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-19 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 19:59 HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated? Daniel Laird
2008-07-18 13:28 ` Brian Foster
2008-07-18 14:39 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-07-18 14:47 ` Martin Gebert
2008-07-19 7:15 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2008-07-21 9:18 ` Martin Gebert
2008-07-24 14:40 ` Adrian Bunk
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