Re: [PATCH v13 00/11] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 07:43:03AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > A great deal of mailing lists contain numerous protections against
> > things like flooding and spamming.  One of those protections is a
> > check for "Too many recipients to the message".  Most of the time this
> > simply requires moderator intervention by way of review and approval,
> > but this ultimately depends on the ML's configuration.
> > 
> > The first thing to ascertain is why your recipients list is so large.
> > Have you added every reviewer, subsystem-maintainer, maintainer and
> > contributor suggested by get-maintainer.pl?  If so, consider pruning
> > that a little.  Contributors do not tend to care about subsequent
> > changes to a file.  As someone who receives a lot of patches, I tend
> > to get fed-up when receiving patches simply because I made a change X
> > years ago.  Stick to listed maintainers/reviewers in the first
> > instance and see how far that takes you.
> 
> Thank you for the detailed reply. I did this in the first few patchsets
> and then when a few patches didn't get any attention, expanded the
> audience thus. Still, around 50% of the patches in this series remain
> unreviewed by anyone.

This isn't a reason to add more recipients (who are likely to care
even less than your original group).  However it *is* a good argument
for including all of the specified maintainers/reviewers in on all of
the patches.

> > If your recipients list is as succinct as reasonably possible, maybe
> > just accept that every version isn't going to be archived by every
> > ML.  It's still much more useful for the correct people to have
> > visibility into the set than for it to be archived multiple times.
> 
> Thank you, will prune the list and remove past contributors from the
> Cc-list and add all parties to all patches.

Great.  Once you've done that, we can start to help you acquire the
Acks you need on your remaining patches.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
Linaro Services Technical Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog