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

Florian Mickler
2010-09-13T09:01:13Z

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.

I for one, would not filter them away. I doubt many people will filter
them away. Postpone? Maybe. But filtering them to > /dev/null? I doubt
it. And if they do, it is their choice.

If you care about cc'ing someone deeply, you just put him manually on the
cc list and thus bypass any get_maintainer.pl-provoked filtering.

> This whole thing reminds me of a quote my father used to have hanging
> in his study: "To err is human. To really foul things up use a computer"

:)

>
> Eric