Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

[Daniel Phillips]

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 
[e-mail] with [BUGFIX] in the subject, or would 
[e-mail] 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