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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic•net>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99•com>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm•linux.org.uk>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical•com>,
	Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@codeaurora•org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:53:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287442418.5376.38.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1010181833440.2764@xanadu.home>

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:35 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:58 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 02:29:22PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > > That's why we have get_maintainer.pl, it adds in all the CC's
> > > > automatically ..
> > > $ git diff-tree -u 861bd81ee62a0d6759144c22909a8a3938951656 | scripts/get_maintainer.pl |wc 
> > >     209     624    8021
> > > 209 recipients / 8K of To:/CC: is reasonable?
> > What it's showing you is anyone that's ever modified those files.. You
> > just need the people who maintain the files.
> > how about this,
> > git show 08a610d9ef5394525b0328da0162d7b58c982cc4 | ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl | wc
> >      58     163    2169
> > That's the patch we're actually discussing too. It's about one CC per
> > file modified.
> What is a mailing list for, then?  Why are you subscribed?
> Please get real or get away.

Too true.  The patch is entirely for arch/arm and
relatively few if any maintainers need to be cc'd.

This could have been done:

$ git show 08a610d9ef5394525b0328da0162d7b58c982cc4 | ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit | wc -l
35

Even then, using 35 CCs is generally silly.

It _might_ make some sense for a cover letter and a
patch series where the series made tree-wide changes
in multiple directories.

Even so, lkml will sensibly reject emails with more
than a couple dozen CC's as likely spam.

For cover letters, I generally use:

	./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nom -l --nogit

and for each patch in a series

	./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-git

There is a change in the get_maintainers.pl in Andrew
Morton's mm tree to default to --nogit.

The new get_maintainer.pl is available from:
	git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/get_maintainer.git 20100922_gm 
Have a look at:
	http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/get_maintainer.git

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-18 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-17 23:35 linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree Stephen Rothwell
2010-10-18  0:02 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-10-18  8:15   ` Russell King
2010-10-18 17:26     ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 18:20       ` Russell King
2010-10-18 18:46         ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 19:29           ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 20:12             ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 20:19               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 20:37                 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 20:48                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 21:05                     ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 21:17                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 21:35                         ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 21:11                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 20:58               ` Russell King
2010-10-18 21:29                 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 21:58                   ` Russell King
2010-10-18 22:27                     ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 22:35                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 22:53                         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2010-10-19 13:18                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 17:03                             ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-19 17:18                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-19 18:42                                 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-19 18:53                                   ` Russell King
2010-10-19 19:24                                     ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-19 18:34                               ` Russell King
2010-10-19 18:49                                 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 23:09                         ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 23:32                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 23:45                             ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-19  2:47                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-19 16:55                                 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 20:19             ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 20:57               ` Nicolas Pitre
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-31  6:08 Stephen Rothwell
2011-01-31  2:14 Stephen Rothwell
2011-01-31  2:14 Stephen Rothwell
2011-02-02 18:29 ` David Brown
2011-02-02 19:43   ` Greg KH
2011-02-02 20:00     ` Russell King
2011-02-02 20:32       ` Greg KH
2011-02-02 20:44         ` Russell King
2011-02-02 21:47           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-02 22:46             ` David Brown
2011-02-02 22:59             ` David Brown
2011-02-03  0:15               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-04 17:17             ` Daniel Walker
2011-02-04 17:42               ` Russell King
2011-02-04 18:02                 ` David Brown
2011-02-04 18:10                 ` Daniel Walker
2011-02-04 19:40               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-04 20:38                 ` David Brown
2010-05-04  1:07 Stephen Rothwell
2010-05-04 16:42 ` Daniel Walker
2010-05-04 21:26   ` Stephen Rothwell

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