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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:53:35 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1011170150060.7420@pobox.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101117014427.41d85b13@stein>

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Stefan Richter wrote:

> > > I don't know what you asked Joe to change, but asking someone to use
> > > the documented canonical patch format:
> > 
> > > <quote>
> > > The canonical patch subject line is:
> > 
> > >     Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
> > > </quote>
> > 
> > > should be fine.  And there is no need for printf-ish templates
> > > for this in MAINTAINERS either.
> > 
> > That's exactly what I asked him to do.  He said he's not willing to use
> > anything for "subsystem" which can't be automatically generated.
> 
> Why should we codify our conventions in MAINTAINERS to accommodate the
> specific problem of virtually a _single_ patch author?
> 
> Conventions are living and are being adjusted all the time, as code
> organization changes, people join and go, projects start and cease.
> 
> Said author please looks the conventions up in the git history.  If he
> finds that this decelerates his patch generation rate, he can surely
> code a script that looks into git for him and suggests plausible
> prefixes for his patch titles to him.  Or he can collect a kind of
> database (a config file) locally for his own use in which he records
> conventional prefixes on the go.

Come on guys, this debate is really horribly boring.

Either the maintainer wants the patch. Then he is certainly able to apply 
it no matter the subject line (I personally am getting a lot of patches 
which don't follow the format I am using in my tree ... converting 
Subject: lines is so trivial that I have never felt like bothering anyone 
about it ... it's basically single condition in a shellscript). Or the 
maintainer doesn't feel like the patch is worth it, and then the 
subject-line format really doesn't matter.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-15  3:04 [PATCH 00/44] remove unnecessary semicolons Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 01/44] arch/arm: Remove " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 02/44] arch/microblaze: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  6:37   ` Michal Simek
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 03/44] arch/um: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 04/44] drivers/cpufreq: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 05/44] drivers/gpio: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 06/44] drivers/i2c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 07/44] drivers/isdn: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 08/44] drivers/leds: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 09/44] drivers/media/video: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 10/44] drivers/misc: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 11/44] drivers/mmc: " Joe Perches
2010-12-05  3:32   ` Chris Ball
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 12/44] drivers/net/bnx2x: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 13/44] drivers/net/e1000e: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 14/44] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 16:24   ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-11-15 19:08   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 15/44] drivers/net/vxge: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:07   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 16/44] drivers/net/wireless/ath: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 17/44] drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 18/44] drivers/net/cnic.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 19/44] drivers/platform/x86: " Joe Perches
2010-11-24 16:52   ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 20/44] drivers/power: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 21/44] drivers/s390/net: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 22/44] drivers/scsi/be2iscsi: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 23/44] drivers/scsi/bfa: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 24/44] drivers/scsi/lpfc: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 25/44] drivers/scsi/pm8001: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:27   ` Jack Wang
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 26/44] drivers/scsi/qla2xxx: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 27/44] drivers/serial: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 28/44] drivers/spi: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:57   ` Grant Likely
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 29/44] drivers/staging: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 30/44] drivers/usb/gadget: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 31/44] drivers/xen: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 32/44] fs/9p: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 33/44] fs/ceph: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 34/44] fs/logfs: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 35/44] fs/nfs: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 36/44] fs/ocfs2: " Joe Perches
2010-11-17  0:10   ` Joel Becker
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 37/44] fs/ubifs: " Joe Perches
2010-11-19 13:21   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 38/44] include/linux/if_macvlan.h: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:07   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 39/44] include/net/caif/cfctrl.h: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  7:12   ` Sjur BRENDELAND
2010-11-15 19:07   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:04 ` [PATCH 40/44] mm/hugetlb.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  9:52   ` Mel Gorman
2010-11-15  3:05 ` [PATCH 41/44] net/ipv6/mcast.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:07   ` David Miller
2010-11-15  3:05 ` [PATCH 42/44] net/sunrpc/addr.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15  3:05 ` [PATCH 43/44] sound/core/pcm_lib.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-22  6:44   ` Takashi Iwai
2010-11-15  3:05 ` [PATCH 44/44] sound/soc/codecs: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 11:09   ` Liam Girdwood
2010-11-15 13:49   ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 17:09     ` Joe Perches
2010-11-15 17:30       ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 17:34         ` Joe Perches
2010-11-15 18:27           ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 18:30             ` Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:07               ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 19:14                 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:34                   ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 19:52                     ` Joe Perches
2010-11-16 10:49                       ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 14:51                         ` rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool Joe Perches
2010-11-16 15:04                           ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 17:37                           ` Florian Mickler
2010-11-16 18:12                             ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 19:35                               ` Florian Mickler
2010-11-16 19:55                                 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 20:21                                   ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-16 20:42                                     ` Joe Perches
2010-11-16 20:46                                       ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-16 23:22                                         ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 23:28                                           ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-16 23:50                                             ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 23:57                                             ` Joe Perches
2010-11-17  0:55                                               ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-16 23:57                                           ` Joe Perches
2010-11-16 23:01                                     ` Mark Brown
2010-11-17  0:44                                       ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-17  0:53                                         ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2010-11-17 17:07                                           ` Mark Brown
2010-11-17 21:07                                             ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-17 23:49                                               ` Joe Perches
2010-11-17 19:32           ` [PATCH 44/44] sound/soc/codecs: Remove unnecessary semicolons Pavel Machek

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