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Re: [Qemu-devel] Cc'ing emails [
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Cc'ing emails [ |
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Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:43:13 +0200 |
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Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> writes:
> Please stop Cc'ing me emails sent to, at least, address@hidden
I'll try to remember, but in general you can't expect everyone to keep
tabs on who wants and who doesn't want to be copied.
> I'm about to filter personal emails which are also sent to
> some mailinglists I receive. I'd not do that, because this is
> a good practice to Cc someone like that for various really
> important or urgent emails, and if I to apply such a filter,
> these urgent emails will be filtered too, obviously.
>
> I'm not sure how people treat these cases or deal with them.
> We are subscribed to, in particular, qemu-devel@, and active
> maintainers look there too, so receive more than one copy of
> many emails.
I believe fighting the established convention to copy is futile. I
embrace it instead, and make it help me prioritize my reading. Copy me,
and I'll at least skim cover letters and other thread-starters to
determine whether I need to follow this thread. Don't copy me, and I'll
at best glance at the subject in passing.
Automatic filing into folders and marking copies so I don't have to mark
them read twice helps.
The additional traffic is a drop in a bucket.
> It is becoming worse. With get_maintainer.pl pulling addresses
> of people who made changes or commits to files by default,
> contributing to the project becomes a bit dangerous. Because
> as a result, once you fix something, you're essentially being
> subscribed to a spam list, because other contributors start
> Ccing you for the patches with which you have absolutely nothing
> to do, and if a discussion emerges, you can't opt out of it
> anymore (especially for patches which raise hot discussions).
> So I'd rather think twice before contributing anything...
That's sad.
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dump.c: Fix memory leak issue in cleanup processing for dump_init(), Laszlo Ersek, 2014/08/12
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dump.c: Fix memory leak issue in cleanup processing for dump_init(), Luiz Capitulino, 2014/08/14