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From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, berrange@redhat.com, kwolf@redhat.com,
	peter.maydell@linaro.org,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cover letter cc's [was: [PATCH 60/67] hw/s390x: add include directory headers]
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 15:26:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180504152658.3537707a.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be79d6dd-beaa-ba6f-2990-b5e91139411b@redhat.com>

On Fri, 4 May 2018 08:07:53 -0500
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

> [adding a cross-post to the git mailing list]
> 
> On 05/04/2018 02:10 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 May 2018 22:51:40 +0300
> > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> This way they are easier to find using standard rules.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> >> ---  
> ...
> 
> > [Goes to find cover letter to figure out what this is all about.
> > *Please*, cc: people on the cover letter so they can see immediately
> > what this is trying to do!]  
> 
> Is there an EASY way to make 'git format-patch --cover-letter $commitid' 
> (and git send-email, by extension) automatically search for all cc's any 
> any of the N/M patches, and auto-cc ALL of those recipients on the 0/N 
> cover letter?  And if that is not something easily built into git 
> format-patch directly, is it something that can easily be added to 
> sendemail.cccmd?  This is not the first time that someone has complained 
> that automatic cc's are not sending the cover letter context to a 
> particular maintainer interested (and auto-cc'd) in only a subset of an 
> overall series.

I think for most cases where I've been cc:ed on the cover letter and
only some of the patches, people actually added cc: lines to the cover
letter manually.

> 
> On the other hand, cc'ing all recipients for a largely mechanical patch 
> series that was split into 67 parts, in part because it touches so many 
> different maintainers' areas, may make the cover letter have so many 
> recipients that various mail gateways start rejecting it as potential spam.

Yes, large cross-subsystem patch series make this painful.

If I get some patches like "subsystem: frobnicate foo" and it's clear
that it's simply frobnicating foo for various subsystems, I can see
what this is about without reading the cover letter, no need to cc: me.
In this case, however, the patch did not make any sense at all without
looking at the explanation in the cover letter.

So I think we don't want to do this automatically, although some way to
collect potential candidates for cc:ing on the cover letter might be
helpful.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-04 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1525376963-79623-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <1525376963-79623-61-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <20180504091007.55405a6a.cohuck@redhat.com>
2018-05-04 13:07     ` cover letter cc's [was: [PATCH 60/67] hw/s390x: add include directory headers] Eric Blake
2018-05-04 13:26       ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2018-05-04 13:32         ` Peter Maydell
2018-05-04 21:38       ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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