Re: Sashiko change proposal

[Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 15 2026, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:

> (CCing all people attending the mm-next call)
>
> Hi,
>
> After talking to Roman at MS, he just informed me that sashiko now has a new
> feature combination:
> - "embargo_hours": hours before review is public + emails sent
> - Mechanism for signed-in maintainers to lift embargo immediately
>
> That solves the key issue I had with sashiko: people/agents re-spinning stuff
> too fast before a human at least had the chance to jump in first.

If a sender re-spins stuff too fast after a Sashiko review, that's a
pretty clear signal that it is an agent. For me, that makes it an easy
decision to ignore the sender. I'm curious, why would you want to lose
that signal? Is the goal to preserve Sashiko bandwidth and reduce
mailing list spam?

>
> I suggest the following sashiko change for linux-mm:
>
> diff --git a/projects/linux/mailing_lists.toml b/projects/linux/mailing_lists.toml
> index a9198de..ba123da 100644
> --- a/projects/linux/mailing_lists.toml
> +++ b/projects/linux/mailing_lists.toml
> @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ ignored_emails = ["patchwork@emeril.freedesktop.org"]
>  ["linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org"]
>  ["linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org"]
>  ["linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org"]
> -["linux-mm@kvack.org"]
>  ["linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org"]
>  ["linux-omap@vger.kernel.org"]
>  ["linux-pm@vger.kernel.org"]
> @@ -315,3 +314,7 @@ reply_to = ["author", "list", "recipients"]
>
>  ["fsverity@lists.linux.dev"]
>  reply_to = ["author", "list", "recipients"]
> +
> +["linux-mm@kvack.org"]
> +reply_to = ["author", "list", "recipients"]
> +embargo_hours = 24
>
>
> Which means:
> - Embargo 24h
> - Mails sent to everybody (author, list, CC list)
> - No positive-review ("looks great") mails (default)
> - No other static email addresses that receive a copy (default)
> - No additional ignored author email addresses (default)
>
> I'd say we start with 24h and see how it goes.
>
> Thoughts?

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav