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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Stephen Hemminger \(role\:commit_signer\)"
	<shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	"Wolfram Sang \(role\:commit_signer\)" <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:24:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m162y89r2e.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100913110110.3ed44f22@schatten.dmk.lab> (Florian Mickler's message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:01:10 +0200")

Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> writes:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:16:30 -0700
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> writes:
>> 
>
>> Adding an "ignore me" tag to email addresses generated by
>> get_maintainer.pl would only encourage people to filter those emails
>> when they get them, which is not what we want. 
>
> If people get angry, we want them to have those emails filtered away.

What we want is a better signal to noise ratio so people don't feel
compelled to filter or get angry.

What we really don't want are additional penalties for being a prolific
kernel developer, we have enough of those already.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10  9:33 [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default florian
2010-09-10  9:42 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10  9:46   ` Wolfram Sang
2010-09-10  9:53   ` Mark Brown
2010-09-10 10:04     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 10:18       ` Mark Brown
2010-09-10 10:47         ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 11:07           ` Mark Brown
2010-09-11  0:22           ` [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: Add --git-blame --rolestats "Authored lines" information Joe Perches
2010-09-11  9:38             ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11  9:52               ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 10:02                 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11 10:22                   ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 19:22                   ` [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Add and describe scripts/get_maintainer.pl Joe Perches
2010-09-11 19:34                     ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11 19:43                     ` [PATCH V2] " Joe Perches
2010-09-12 16:18                       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 11:44         ` [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Alan Cox
2010-09-10 10:22       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 10:47         ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 21:22     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 10:30   ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 11:04     ` Mark Brown
2010-09-10 11:15       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 21:04     ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-10 21:39       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 21:44       ` Joe Perches
2010-09-13  4:01     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-09-13  5:21       ` [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Look for .get_maintainer.conf in lk, then $HOME then scripts Joe Perches
2010-09-13  6:13         ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-13 13:21         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-09-10 11:11   ` [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 15:12     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11  9:34       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11  0:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-11  0:31     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11  0:45       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-11  0:56         ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11  9:28         ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-13  7:16           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-13  7:57             ` Joe Perches
2010-09-13  8:54               ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-14 17:19                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-14 17:46                   ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-15  3:28                     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-15  4:34                       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-15  4:45                         ` Joe Perches
2010-09-15 12:49                           ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-14 23:15                   ` Joe Perches
2010-09-13  9:01             ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-14 17:24               ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-09-26 18:52 ` RFC: " Joe Perches
2010-09-27 14:57   ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-27 15:44     ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 17:00       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-27 18:21         ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 19:26           ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-27 20:08             ` Joe Perches
2010-09-27 20:47               ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 21:16                 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-28  4:22                   ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-28  4:37                   ` Mark Brown

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