Re: 2.6.13-mm1

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 9/4/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering if it would be too much trouble to have a mm-drops list
> >  similar to the mm-commits list.
> 
> Well I was sending drop messages to mm-commits, but lots of people went
> "Waah, why did you drop my patch?".  A few hours after they'd been cc'ed as
> the patch went in to Linus!  So then I was asked to include an explanation
> with the drop message and that all got too hard so I turned them off.
> 

If patches dropped due to being merged in mainline were then commented
with a simple "merged in mainline" note, surely that would keep the
"Waah .." mails out of your mailbox. :-)

> <turns them back on again>
> 
> >  I also like to keep track of what patches of mine get accepted and
> >  subsequently dropped.
> 
> As I say, the way to do this is via your quilt series file.
> 
Hmm, I've been looking at quilt, but never really got to the point of
actually starting to use it - guess I should get started on that.


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