Re: [RFC] docs: process: Send patches 'To' maintainers and 'Cc' lists

Kalle Valo
2023-06-05T13:23:04Z

Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 11:26:44AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 18:06:59 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> > > I think that is going overboard (too far). As long as a maintainer
>> > > is a direct recipient of the email (patch), that should be sufficient.
>> >
>> > Or it could be simplified, saying that all those who are expected to
>> > play a role on the patchset (review, test, merge etc) should be in the
>> > 'To' field while those who might possibly be interested in having a
>> > look are in 'Cc' (lists, other people having expressed interest in the
>> > patchset, single-time contributors to the file being changed etc). It
>> > could be hinted that usually people read mails sent to them faster than
>> > those they're CCed. This implies that maintainers have to be in To and
>> > lists in Cc.
>>
>> It's useful when maintainer (or group thereof) who are expected to apply
>> the patch are in the To:
>> Who applies the patch is not information a noob may know but it may be
>> worth writing down as best practice?
>
> Note that some maintainers process pull requests from patchwork, not
> from their mailbox, and prefer not to be aadressed in the To or CC
> headers. I don't know how widespread that is.

FWIW I belong to this group and prefer not be in To or Cc, I'll always
check the patch from patchwork.

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