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

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 09:22:45AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:57 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 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 linux-media@vger.kernel.org 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 linux-media@vger.kernel.org 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.
> 
> +1
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > So the safest instructions are "Use get_matainer.pl and add the person
> > who wrote the commit in the Fixes tag".
> 
> Better: perhaps get_maintainer.pl can be taught to add the author of the
> commit pointed to by the Fixes tag, if present?

And remove Kees Cook and Colin King ? :-) Jokes aside, brushing up
get_maintainer.pl a bit is a good idea. I'm for instance not sure adding
LKML automatically is a good idea if other mailing lists are already
CC'ed, as it's a bit of a /dev/null (albeit with logging, so CC'ing it
when no other mailing list is appropriate certainly makes sense).

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart