From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263366AbUEWTBC (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 15:01:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263370AbUEWTBB (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 15:01:01 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:64477 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263366AbUEWTAy (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 15:00:54 -0400 Message-ID: <40B0F4D5.5000807@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:00:37 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches CC: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission References: <1085334933.8494.1448.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1085334933.8494.1448.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: CC: . 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