Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-audio: Fixed spacing around '&'

From: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <narcisaanamaria12@gmail.com>,
	swarren@wwwdotorg.org, lee@kernel.org, eric@anholt.net,
	f.fainelli@gmail.com, rjui@broadcom.com, sbranden@broadcom.com,
	daniel.baluta@spamfreegmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, mzoran@crowfest.net,
	danielperezdeandres@gmail.com, dan.carpenter@oracle.com,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-audio: Fixed spacing around '&'
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:35:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <954e0bc5-cd3c-c06f-dbfa-bed486b823c6@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702270724430.2187@hadrien>

Hi Julia,

On 17-02-26 10:25 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Scott Branden wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 17-02-26 01:56 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 20:40 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 19:59 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrot
>>>>>>> Mailing lists _should_ be copied on patch submissions.
>>>>>> The idea of outreachy is that it should be a place for people to get
>>>>>> started without too much criticism from the outside.  Originally, only
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> outreachy mailing list received patches.  But staging maintainers were
>>>>>> confused to have their drivers receiving patches that they had not
>>>>>> seen.
>>>>>> So we expanded it to maintainers.
>>>>>
>>>>> That also doesn't make much sense as patches
>>>>> should not be applied that have not reached
>>>>> a mailing list for review.
>>>>>
>>>>> As long as initial outreachy patches are not
>>>>> applied and are just for internal review by
>>>>> any outside person but the outreachy list and
>>>>> are not be applied by maintainers, then perhaps
>>>>> it's best if neither maintainers nor lists are
>>>>> cc'd on the patches.
>>>>
>>>> The patches are applied by Greg.  Greg suggested the policy of adding
>>>> maintainers but not including mailing lists.  I'll let him consider
>>>> whether the policy should be changed.
>>>
>>> Well, I will comment on patches sent to the kernel list.
>>>
>>> I'm not subscribed to outreachy and I don't want to be
>>> subscribed to that list either.
>>>
>> I would prefer this outreachy work uses their own mailing list and reviews
>> their patches first.  Then once they have everything sorted out they send out
>> the patch series to the proper maintainers/mailing lists. That way we're not
>> spammed with all these emails of people as they are learning how to format and
>> send out proper patches.
>
> If you consider that you are getting too much outreachy mail at the
> moment, just let me know what subsystem you want me to add an exception
> for.

The emails seem to mostly be coming with bcm2835-audio.
>
> thanks,
> julia

Thanks,
  Scott
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