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    SubjectRe: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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    On January 30, 2002 02:18 am, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:00:11PM +1100, Stuart Young wrote:
    > > Perhaps it's time we set up a specific lkml-patch mailing list, and leave
    >
    > I like the suggestion (most recently, of Daniel? pardon if I
    > miscredit) of having patches-2.[45]@vger.kernel.org type addresses,
    > which would archive patches, and have a high noise-to-signal ratio.
    > Maybe even filter out all non-patches.
    >
    > The big issue I cannot decide upon is whether standard e-mails should be
    > To: torvalds@
    > CC: patches-2.4@
    > or just
    > To: patches-2.4@
    >
    > (I'm guessing Linus would prefer the first, but who knows)

    I'd say: cc Linus specifically if you think it's something he'd find
    personally interesting. Leave out the cc if it's a minor bugfix or
    maintainance.

    Oh, as somebody suggested in this thread, there is a difference in priority
    between bugfixes and other kinds of patches. Should buxfixes go to
    patches-xxx@kernel.org with [BUGFIX] in the subject, or would
    bugs-xxx@kernel.org be a better idea?

    > Also, something noone has mentioned is out-of-band patches. Security fixes
    > and other patches which for various reasons go straight to Linus.

    Out-of-band patches are not going to stop. The difference is, they will be
    duly noticed after the fact because they should be relatively few in
    comparison to in-band patches.

    Another kind of out-of-band patch is where Linus takes the basic idea from
    somebody's patch and completely rewrites it, or does some hacking on his own,
    which he's been known to do. Somehow I wouldn't expect he'd bother emailing
    the results to himself.

    --
    Daniel
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