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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:03:39 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Rethinking the acceptance policy for
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 07:21:26AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> While we are talking about policies, I would like to raise another bad
> practice that is done by even seasoned developers - sending patches with
> carefully crafted and filtered TO and CC.
> 
> This practice causes to get out of context patches without ability to
> see whole picture and the worse part that it divides feedback to
> "islands" without ability to agree or disagree with the feedback.

Yes.  Depending on my mood I'll ask for a proper resend or will just
ignore that kind of crap, as it is completely unreviewable.