From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC0912F9B for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A10AA6113C; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:19:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1619072342; bh=xg+fC14q9yFR2Yhq73vWHPXwCEhPX/ZTxeASizFGtJ8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=rRemIIH/jDvl6z+DGvv0kxjpcLTjmiy1kaFX5xx9cLH8yRcS149WBi7+u8TB4cmwZ pec+3k0JLKEOLCULSKMlKU6jEt/KxVXvQe5p80gYb+35oSrb4rezUf9nm6M2kDt4df XMqh7bF4HhnJE1dTATLPB2gJojwDtKESJCywT+KPb9II0F3zZnEje6nmjUoc7uBTZ2 OCFqZig4GKlSLb/znf88iHzQqPFNfAmCQyYirpGXQjLZLjUGCb+rXLaZ0vtkfgT9gI MnjQpnV5MIJTkgLLWdLyDw2kpCBYN+s6whamk3h0xWUWVkxvUhS/w7C7eKh4V5K+h5 UIj1WqJeDQknw== Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:18:58 +0300 From: Leon Romanovsky To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: James Bottomley , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Rethinking the acceptance policy for "trivial" patches Message-ID: References: <20210422060339.GB4171859@infradead.org> X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210422060339.GB4171859@infradead.org> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 07:03:39AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Such ignore gives false feeling that you are OK with the changes. Thanks