Re: sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx's Cc list on reviews

[Roman Gushchin]

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2026, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Mon, May 18, 2026, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hey Roman!
> > > >
> > > > Sashiko's choice of Cc is... odd.  The original mail has a whole pile of folks
> > > > in both the To: and Cc:, but sashiko-bot is only replying to myself and (very
> > > > bizarrely) linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
> > > >
> > > > Oooh, is it perhaps because linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the only mailing
> > > > list on the original Cc that has opted-in to getting emails?  If that's the case,
> > > > we might want to change that, even though it could result in people getting grumpy
> > > > about unwanted bot mail, because IMO the alternative is worse.  I've been responding
> > > > to some (mostly very good!) good sashiko-bot feedback, but only just now noticed
> > > > that the vast majority of folks on the To/Cc of the original patch won't see the
> > > > reviews.  That's bound to cause confusion, e.g. if someone reports the same issues
> > > > and/or manually looks at sashiko.dev.
> > >
> > > Hi Sean!
> > >
> > > It's expected per configuration here:
> > > https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko/blob/main/sashiko.dev/email_policy.toml#L138
> > > .
> > > It can be configured to reply to all as well, but since there are some
> > > very vocal anti-AI folks in the community, this might create some
> > > friction.
> >
> > Heh, "might".
> >
> > > In any case, I'm relying on the corresponding maintainers' decision on how
> > > they want to configure Sashiko.
> >
> > What level of configurability does the parser have?  Specifically, can it key off
> > the Cc/To in addition to the list?  I ask because I really, really, want to enable
> > auto-mailing for at least KVM x86, but kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is wildly overloaded.
> > I could try and drive consensus across all 30+ maintainers, but if there's a way
> > to precisely enable it for just KVM x86...
> >
> > E.g. is there a way to do something like:
> >
> > [subsystems.kvm_x86]
> > lists = ["kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" && <email is To: seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]
> > reply_all = true
>
> Actually, shouldn't this be a line item in MAINTAINERS?  E.g. an "A:" section
> to describe the subsystem's preferences for AI reviews (and in the future, other
> things?).

This would work too. But when people send patches (including
LLM-generated patches) get_maintainers.pl
will produce a combined list of all relevant maintainers and mailing
lists. There is no option for "I don't want to be cc'ed
on patches from mailing list X". It sounds like some folks are looking
for this option for AI reviews...