Re: Sashiko email policy precedence

On Tue Jun 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM CEST, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> "Danilo Krummrich" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On Mon Jun 1, 2026 at 11:46 AM CEST, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>>> Flagging something as wide list seems rather simple [1], the tristate [=
2] would
>>> work as well, but seems a bit more complicated and potentially requires
>>> adjusting the existing policies.
>>
>> Roman, any preference on either of those or something else?
>
> Sorry for being late to the party.

No worries, and thanks for catching up.

> Yeah, the tricky balance here is that there are people who want more
> sashiko reviews and there are people who are quite vocal against it.
>
> And I don't want to over-complicate the setup, I'm afraid it will be
> just a constant source of disagreement.

I think it usually works out well as is if multiple subsystems are involved=
.

The only case where it falls apart is with wide lists potentially spanning =
all
subsystems with a certain policy, which if handled like any other list, may=
 end
up taking precedence over all subsystem lists regardless of their preferenc=
e.

Hence the proposal to just special case wide lists, so they can't take
precedence over everything.

> One option, is to switch from mailing list granularity to the
> MAINTAINERS-entry granularity. Wdyt?

As mentioned above, I think the main issue are wide lists, and switching to=
 a
MAINTAINERS-entry granularity wouldn't cover that (unless I am missing
something).

> I don't think I have a perfect model in my head which will cover all edge
> cases, tbh.

The wide list case is not an edge case.

Taking the R4L list aside, if we would set reply_to_author for the LKML, wh=
ich
does not seem entirely unreasonable, it would have the same effect, which i=
s no
one's reply_all setting would be honored anymore.

> I personally think that reply_to_author + cc the main mailing list should=
 work
> pretty much everywhere, but it looks like there are other opinions as wel=
l.

It can be quite cumbersome when people pick up a discussion based on a poin=
t
made by Sashiko and some people are excluded from the discussion because on=
ly
the mailing list and specific people are statically Cc'd.

People that were Cc'd explicitly on a patch series usually don't expect to =
have
to switch to the mailing list to capture every discussion.