Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation/process: Add text to indicate supporters should be mailed

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 29/09/2022 02:25, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Recently when submitting a yaml change I found that I had omitted the
> maintainer whose tree the change needed to go through.
> 
> The reason for that is the path in MAINTAINERS is marked as Supported not
> Maintained. Reading MAINTAINERS we see quote:
> 
>            Supported:   Someone is actually paid to look after this.
>            Maintained:  Someone actually looks after it.
> 
> The current submitting-patches.rst only says to mail maintainers though not
> supporters. When we run scripts/get_maintainer.pl anybody who is denoted a
> paid maintainer will appear as a supporter.
> 
> Let's add some text to the submitting-patches.rst to indicate that
> supporters should similarly be mailed so that you can't do as I did and
> mail every maintainer get_maintainer.pl tells you to, without actually
> mailing the one supporter you need to.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index be49d8f2601b4..aabccaea93375 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -227,9 +227,11 @@ You should always copy the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) on any patch
>  to code that they maintain; look through the MAINTAINERS file and the
>  source code revision history to see who those maintainers are.  The
>  script scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step (pass paths to
> -your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl).  If you cannot find a
> -maintainer for the subsystem you are working on, Andrew Morton
> -(akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) serves as a maintainer of last resort.
> +your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl).  You should mail
> +everyone who appears as "maintainer[volunteer]" or "maintainer[supporter]" as

As I said before, this still ignores reviewers. I don't think it is
going to good direction. The submitter is expected to CC
everyone/everything which is pointed by get_maintainers.pl except the
Git-fallback entries.

Best regards,
Krzysztof