Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:13:43 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [LARGE patch 23/124] sets sent over and over again Re: [PATCH] ext2/3 updates for 2.5.44 (1/11): Default mount options in superblock |
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On Sun, Oct 20 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Hi, > > I know everybody wants to be cool and split their patchkit up. I'm all > for that. But why oh why do these sets have to be sent to LKML every > time when a new upstream kernel is released and the only change is a > rsync? (and Ted, this is not meant as a personal assault of any kind, > your mail was just the one that was the final drop in the bucket) > > I hereby politely ask EVERYONE who wants to (re)posts large patchsets, > to at minimum try to follow something like the following politeness > guidelines > > 1) Make it ONE thread. Do this by cc or bcc'ing yourself on the mails > and use the reply feature of your mailer to reply each next number of > the set to the previous one. This allows people that use mail/news > readers that can do threading to properly sort it. This is not hard, > and I consider it the least you can do for the people that read lklm. > > 2) Do not resent all 506 parts of your patchkit every time Linus > releases a new kernel and all you did was merge up. Post 1 mail with > the fact that you did this and an URL to the patchkit if you feel > everyone and their dog really wants to know this fact. This does not > mean that if you did significant cleanup work you shouldn't repost > (while keeping #1 in mind), that obviously is of more interest.
Well said, I couldn't agree more.
-- Jens Axboe
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