Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues"

Steven Rostedt
2022-10-02T22:29:00Z

On Sun, 2 Oct 2022 22:20:40 +0000
"Artem S. Tashkinov" <aros@gmx.com> wrote:

> Opt-in will work, except I've no idea how to make it work. Mass email
> all the kernel developers and politely invite them to sign up? Most will
> simply ignore it.

Why not? The people who will ignore it will be the same people you are
asking to go and unsubscribe. But at least with just a single email
invite all they need to do to not be set up is to ignore a single
email. For those that want to be involved, they will make the effort to
do so.

>
> It's been mentioned here several times already that even collecting
> their public email addresses in public git logs could be considered illegal.

I would do it with the MAINTAINERS file if you were to do that. The
purpose of the MAINTAINERS file is to send email to those listed.

-- Steve