Re: Enable notifications for linux-mtd

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 22:10:16 -0800
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 09:29:35AM +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> > Hi Boris,
> >   
> > > Is there a way to send notifications to the submitter/author when the
> > > status of a linux-mtd patch is changed?  
> > 
> > Absolutely - that's just something I can turn on in your project's
> > config. I assume your co-maintainers are OK with this?  
> 
> What does "notification to submitter/author" mean? Only to the person
> who sent the patch? Or to everyone CC'd (including the mailing list)? If
> it's not the latter, then I hope no maintainer starts relying on that.
> It really obscures the process if authors are getting private
> notifications, and nobody ever responds publicly to say things have been
> applied.

That's true. Jeremy, are notifications sent to all people in Cc of a
patch/patch-series, or is it just sent to the submitter and author of
the patch?

> 
> > > Not sure we'll need a notification for any kind of change, but having
> > > one when the patch is marked as Accepted would be good.  
> > 
> > Currently, the notifications are for all state changes (there's no
> > config to do it selectively). Will this be a problem?  
> 
> In general, mailing lists get a lot of inapplicable junk. Cross-posts,
> at least (e.g., device tree source changes, documentation, and driver
> patches in a single series -- we might only care about the latter 2).
> Does that mean we notify submitters when things move to "Not
> Applicable"? What about "Archived"? There's still non-archived stuff on
> the tracker that's >3 years old. I guess spamming people isn't the end
> of the world...
> 
> Brian