Re: [PATCH v2] get_maintainer: Add --prefix option

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Jun 26 2019 - 11:36:39 EST


On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 11:36 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:23:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
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> > I want to proposed patches to moderated lists
> > and believe everyone really should too.
> >
> > I don't care if moderated lists send a
> > "waiting for moderation" message as long as the
> > list gets the proposed patch eventually.
> >
> > I think only Peter cares about those, to him,
> > superfluous "being moderated" messages.
>
> I'm really not alone in that. Not only do you get those annoying
> messages, the people reading that list might get the discussion in
> fragments, because some people that reply are subscribed and do not
> require moderation while others do get caught in the moderation thing
> and then delayed.

<shrug> email moderation time is up to any moderator.

> It also puts a burden on the moderator, do they allow the whole
> discussion or only part. What if they deem the thing off-topic and want
> to kill it, but then some of their whitelisted people do reply.

Please remember any moderated list entries originate here
by using get_maintainers.pl for a proposed patch or discuss
a particular subsystem.

If a moderator of a list decides an email chain about a
patch is somehow off-topic and does not forward the email,
likely that moderated list should be removed from MAINTAINERS.

Under what use case would you want to use get_maintainer and
_not_ cc a particular mailing list?