Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH] media: add a subsystem profile documentation

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.linuxfoundation.lists.ksummit-discuss,dev.linux.lists.ksummit,org.kernel.vger.linux-media
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Em Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:56:44 +0300
Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> escreveu:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:57:28AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > > +Patches for the media subsystem should be sent to the media mailing list
> > > > +at [email protected] as plain text only e-mail. Emails with
> > > > +HTML will be automatically rejected by the mail server. There's no need
> > > > +to copy the maintainer or sub-maintainer(s).    
> > > 
> > > There's too much traffic on mailing lists for me to follow everything, I
> > > much prefer being CC'ed on patches.  
> > 
> > Well, by using patchwork, the best is to take a look on it at least for
> > the patches that you're interested. You could script something using
> > pwclient in order to make it easier.
> > 
> > Anyway, not sure if the other sub-maintainers see the same way. From my side,
> > I prefer not to be c/c, as this is just more noise, as I just rely on
> > patchwork for media patches. What about changing this to:
> > 
> > 	Patches for the media subsystem should be sent to the media mailing list
> > 	at [email protected] as plain text only e-mail. Emails with
> > 	HTML will be automatically rejected by the mail server. It could be wise 
> > 	to also copy the sub-maintainer(s).  
> 
> The documentation should say "Use get_maintainer.pl" and do what it
> says.  Everything else is too complicated.

Works for me.

> Occasionally staging maintainers will complain that they aren't CC'd
> even though the staging/driver/README says to CC them and I am tell them
> "No, the responsibility is for you to add yourself to MAINTAINERS.  It
> doesn't matter what the documentation says, you messed up so you need to
> stop getting annoyed with newbies for not reading the documentation when
> it's your fault you weren't CC'd."
> 
> When I sent a patch, I use get_maintainer.pl then I add whoever the
> wrote the commit from the Fixes tag.  Then I remove Colin King and Kees
> Cook from the CC list because they worked all over the tree and I know
> them.  I also normally remove LKML if there is another mailing list but
> at least one subsystem uses LKML for patchwork so this isn't safe.

I use get_maintainer.pl myself, but when submitting some patches
(like documentation ones), I need to manually clean the list, as
it is not uncommon to have a really long c/c list.

> 
> So the safest instructions are "Use get_matainer.pl and add the person
> who wrote the commit in the Fixes tag".
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
> 
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Thanks,
Mauro
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