From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-io1-f53.google.com (mail-io1-f53.google.com [209.85.166.53]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 497BA70 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io1-f53.google.com with SMTP id p8so24693902iol.11 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:08:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=google; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qGEWsTg+l+192htA/20iH9KxQd+8WJN8loTbl9hhDpE=; b=bnXstzv1qJDOPAQcC7bv6NEE87zSP6FxhJlhDEzCyVzO19E6c+gWf7UDR07mGbjwLg tbJlU4eUdAGMYrGy8vdz9xm0RwmVZmWWRL3SM49kn7D0bNU6OjgOcQYe7lYnkw7WMYMw AlrbVAOERmDT4MxwLM5uhJj40N1VV5F3v5kkA= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=qGEWsTg+l+192htA/20iH9KxQd+8WJN8loTbl9hhDpE=; b=ugiYMan94COQjFb0sPcrTosJfVQ6D1HN+XxmgSFjHZUHA9wGn8ZlM0KJuS8fsG4snE 15epQYxMnaGdhOAXyqoz2OF0SIdspUFAtqerE+mDn7Gl1PPyyARG20+TDvoGKL2NdnnF ePbFSLhVExxxao3tHnPIdYbfrDObnLpFYAZWd5WYBSVaZFD0n8lIyszU7cHzju/wOn7Z 5Y+7jgmadE3U3r8PqWYmHZItaXKKnc3Szyzg94xGHGtvtTuAYgdRp3uLNlzOzyHWCAeX F4venL7huvAAwpyZVte2X4Ud0moNz78D6E9/rHoyYkUBo1wy9NhwfUNhTqfzRvpi1bmZ ffzA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531QbDlQCGPTLkdu6iKNqM4jybLZ5NIMae5qOcMzQclZ4Tb/jm9W JuVaAubkFD1vozqyIF3wMVu6sLss9Tf9DQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJy1W1DIMtmDFiZs+e7NKuD/ZCe6bft/JlDGc8dDKxDu4WqJgGjDGj37OQQwClMZBQsVmXzqOQ== X-Received: by 2002:a6b:d213:: with SMTP id q19mr3297342iob.203.1619107708471; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:08:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.112] (c-24-9-64-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net. [24.9.64.241]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f18sm1337206ile.40.2021.04.22.09.08.27 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:08:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Rethinking the acceptance policy for "trivial" patches To: Steven Rostedt , James Bottomley Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , ksummit@lists.linux.dev, Shuah Khan References: <20210422123559.1dc647fb@coco.lan> <0d83502f-eb29-9b06-ada8-fcd03f9c87a8@linuxfoundation.org> <20210422115235.0526dabd@gandalf.local.home> From: Shuah Khan Message-ID: <0c6e9057-b7f5-f18d-5f88-beb95a33f41f@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:08:27 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210422115235.0526dabd@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 4/22/21 9:52 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 08:48:21 -0700 > James Bottomley wrote: > >> On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 08:42 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: >> [...] >>> 2. Improving the requirement for bug fixes and large series, like >>> cover letters to everyone, adding fixes: tag and clear explanation. >> >> Just on this one, can we get the mailing list to help now we're moving >> to a new infrastructure? I was already thinking of asking if it could >> reject email with html parts rather than simply losing it, but perhaps >> it could reject threaded submissions where the cover letter isn't >> correctly cc'd? I know that's a big ask because there has to be an >> easy way to recognize them (heuristics on the PATCH tag?) and a way to >> recognize missing cc's (perhaps simply that someone cc'd on the >> threaded [PATCH x/y] reply isn't cc'd on [PATCH 0/y]?) > One thing that would be helpful is rejecting patches that aren't cc'ed to the maintainers. I have had two recent cases where the patches were delegated to me in patchwork and I had to go find them. I did the extra work primarily because the patch was sent by a new developer. It adds extra work for sure. > Unfortunately, this breaks all quilt users, as quilt does not support this. > > Which includes myself, perhaps Peter Zijlstra, and I believe Andrew Morton. > > I also, don't want to be Cc'd on the cover letter of stable patches, which > also doesn't follow this procedure. > I didn't realize quilt doesn't support it. thanks, -- Shuah