Re: [RFC] automatic CC generation for patch submission

[Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:01:44AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
> * Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:34:51 +0300
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to present a suggestion for automatic generation of 
> > carbon copy fields in the E-Mails of posted patches.
> >
> > Basically, instead of manually figuring out who to add to CC
> > when sending a patch to LKML by looking at MAINTAINERS, a 
> > script can look at '.maintainers' files spread across the
> > source tree and automatically generate a proper list of CCs
> > for a patch.
> 
> LKML archive near you, search phrase "BTS", subjects that have
> something about "the quality of the kernel". Good luck. 

Right, however many patches don't map to bug reports and don't 
need the heavy use of BTS. This suggestion is mainly for the 
improvement of peer review concerning code changes submitted 
by people who are not the maintainers.

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