Re: Sashiko change proposal

[Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 10:38:14AM +0200, 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.
> 
> 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?

Acked-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@kernel.org>

Quick question: when are maintainers supposed to lift embargo?

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Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon