Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission

Jeff Garzik
2004-05-23T19:01:02Z

Joe Perches wrote:
> Use of BK has lost some of the "many-eyeballs" positives of the past.
> Today's BkCommits-Head list only allows an after-the-fact review.
> Frequently, the patch author and sometimes the maintainer are the
> only parties to the change. A pre-commit list could allow comments by
> interested parties on patches that today are under reviewed.

Although you do have a point, this is not really true.

For my stuff and several other maintainers, the patches generally appear
To: <maintainer> CC: <mailing list>. I specificially ask submittors to
always CC a mailing list.

It is true that the maintainers (subsystem maintainers like me, or
overall maintainers like Andrew and Linus) sometimes check in patches
without much review, but even there, I usually send things that would be
remotely controversial to the linux-ide/netdev/linux-kernel lists.

Jeff