Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2023 23:34:01 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to reviewers |
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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.
> > Please read the mailinglist, that's the whole > > point of having it. > > When reviewing things in various subsystem this would require reading > all of LKML, which is impractical.
Works with your maintainers to have useful lists for their subsystems. That's again the point.
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