Re: Maybe make Sashiko emails opt-in please?

[John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>]

On 4/22/26 6:48 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Thu Apr 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM JST, lyude wrote:
... 
> I agree that this kind of tool should be opt-in. Maybe we can make it
> such as Sachiko reviews are only sent to the author of a patch if they
> also Cc'd some sachiko@ address that acts as an opt-in?

I love the idea of Sashiko remaining silent, unless it was specifically
Cc'd.

* Developers prefer tools that can "pre-review" and catch issues *before*
they post publicly.

    * checkpatch.pl does that.
    * sashiko could do that too! It could be triggered by a direct
      email sent only to sashiko.

* While debate continues about the false positive rate of AI-powered
code reviews vs. their value, there is *no* debate that the rate is
high enough to bother a significant fraction of kernel devs. We need
to respect that and configure the tool usage to be less, well, annoying.

This is important.

> 
> Sachiko can still do reviews and post them on its web interface even
> without it, but the author would not be explicitly notified in that
> case.

Yes, exactly.

I'm very impressed with sashiko, and want to get its feedback--in select
scenarios. Not on every patchset I post. And I believe that this is a
fairly common, widespread preference.
 

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard