Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Jeff Garzik
2002-01-30T01:18:34Z

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:00:11PM +1100, Stuart Young wrote:
> Perhaps it's time we set up a specific lkml-patch mailing list, and leave

I like the suggestion (most recently, of Daniel? pardon if I
miscredit) of having patches-2.[45]@vger.kernel.org type addresses,
which would archive patches, and have a high noise-to-signal ratio.
Maybe even filter out all non-patches.

The big issue I cannot decide upon is whether standard e-mails should be
To: torvalds@
CC: patches-2.4@
or just
To: patches-2.4@

(I'm guessing Linus would prefer the first, but who knows)

Also, something noone has mentioned is out-of-band patches. Security fixes and other
patches which for various reasons go straight to Linus.

Jeff