Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-audio: Fixed spacing around '&'

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Feb 26 2017 - 16:57:56 EST


On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 20:40 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 19:59 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrot
> > > > Mailing lists _should_ be copied on patch submissions.
> > > The idea of outreachy is that it should be a place for people to get
> > > started without too much criticism from the outside. Originally, only the
> > > outreachy mailing list received patches. But staging maintainers were
> > > confused to have their drivers receiving patches that they had not seen.
> > > So we expanded it to maintainers.
> >
> > That also doesn't make much sense as patches
> > should not be applied that have not reached
> > a mailing list for review.
> >
> > As long as initial outreachy patches are not
> > applied and are just for internal review by
> > any outside person but the outreachy list and
> > are not be applied by maintainers, then perhaps
> > it's best if neither maintainers nor lists are
> > cc'd on the patches.
>
> The patches are applied by Greg. Greg suggested the policy of adding
> maintainers but not including mailing lists. I'll let him consider
> whether the policy should be changed.

Well, I will comment on patches sent to the kernel list.

I'm not subscribed to outreachy and I don't want to be
subscribed to that list either.