Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default

Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-14T17:24:15Z

Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> writes:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:16:30 -0700
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> writes:
>>
>
>> Adding an "ignore me" tag to email addresses generated by
>> get_maintainer.pl would only encourage people to filter those emails
>> when they get them, which is not what we want.
>
> If people get angry, we want them to have those emails filtered away.

What we want is a better signal to noise ratio so people don't feel
compelled to filter or get angry.

What we really don't want are additional penalties for being a prolific
kernel developer, we have enough of those already.

Eric