From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to reviewers
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 23:34:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZRpkWXMiQjUJPszZ@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4ce8205-93a6-4ef5-94c0-1fb8d261bcac@t-8ch.de>
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 09:24:57AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > This does not scale.
>
> Could you elaborate in which way it doesn't scale?
If I send a modest cross-subsystem series it often touches 20+
subsystems. Between mailing lists and maintainers that's usually
already 60+ recipients. If you now add a another 2-3 maintainers
we're just going to hit limits in mail servers.
> > Please read the mailinglist, that's the whole
> > point of having it.
>
> When reviewing things in various subsystem this would require reading
> all of LKML, which is impractical.
Works with your maintainers to have useful lists for their subsystems.
That's again the point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-02 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-27 18:52 Thomas Weißschuh
2023-09-28 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-28 9:17 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-09-29 7:24 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-10-02 6:34 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-10-02 7:36 ` Jani Nikula
2023-10-02 8:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-02 17:04 ` Thomas Weißschuh
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