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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Meng Xu <xumengpanda@gmail.com>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>,
	Tianyang Chen <tiche@seas.upenn.edu>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	Meng Xu <mengxu@cis.upenn.edu>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Dagaen Golomb <dgolomb@seas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Improved RTDS scheduler
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:04:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1451916266.13361.110.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAENZ-+n8rc8Q0erW+vt73ZywDt8gno4jcZ9qOnEW9uGft3nX5w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 21:48 +0800, Meng Xu wrote:
> > (In general single patches do not require a separate cover letter
> > unless
> > the required context contains a large amount of information which is
> > not
> > appropriate for the commit message of the actual change, I'll leave it
> > to
> > you and the scheduler maintainers to decide how much of your cover
> > letter
> > it would be appropriate to move to the commit message).
> 
> The cover letter is supposed to explain the design idea of the
> improved RTDS scheduler so that reviewers could (potentially) save
> time in reviewing the patch, we think. :-)
> Probably, the commit message should be refined and self-contained?

If I were maintainer of this code I would likely ask that a bunch of the
information from the cover letter (i..e anything which would still be
relevant to a code archaeologist in 6 months or 10 years) was moved into
the commit message, but I'm not maintainer of this code.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-31  9:45 [PATCH 0/1] Improved RTDS scheduler Tianyang Chen
2015-12-31  9:45 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Tianyang Chen
2016-01-04 11:42   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-04 13:48     ` Meng Xu
2016-01-04 14:04       ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2016-01-04 14:36       ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-06  7:11         ` Tianyang Chen

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