[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-devel now defaults to reply-to "poster"
From: |
Jan Kiszka |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-devel now defaults to reply-to "poster" |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:20 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); de; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080226 SUSE/2.0.0.12-1.1 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 |
François Revol wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> So now when you hit Reply-to-all, your mail client will include the
>>> person who sent the original mail. This has been a frequently
>>> requested
>>> change.
>>>
>> Hurray!
>>
>> I think we should now encourage proper CC'ing when posting patches,
>> ie.
>> ask patch submitters to
>> - add the related subsystem maintainer (if identifiable)
>> - add the author of the commit that is about to be fixed, enhanceed,
>> reverted etc.
>> - add people who commented on / contributed to previous versions of
>> the
>> patch
>
> I thought the purpose of a mailing list was to handle the *list* of
> people to **mail* to automatically... looks like offloading to humans
> back...
This unfortunately only works (more or less) up to certain level of
topics you try to follow actively, often also across multiple lists.
Well, we would need reliable semantic filtering, I guess. If you have
such a tool, free for everyone, please tell us. For now the common
workaround is CC'ing.
Jan
--
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux