Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to reviewers

From: Jani Nikula
Date: Mon Oct 02 2023 - 03:36:18 EST


On Sun, 01 Oct 2023, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I thought this was about adding people who have commented on previous
versions to Cc. That's usually a very limited number.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel