Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-audio: Fixed spacing around '&'

[Scott Branden]

Hi Julia,

On 17-02-26 10:25 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Scott Branden wrote:
>
> > On 17-02-26 01:56 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 20:40 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 19:59 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrot
> > > > > > > Mailing lists _should_ be copied on patch submissions.
> > > > > > The idea of outreachy is that it should be a place for people to get
> > > > > > started without too much criticism from the outside.  Originally, only
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > outreachy mailing list received patches.  But staging maintainers were
> > > > > > confused to have their drivers receiving patches that they had not
> > > > > > seen.
> > > > > > So we expanded it to maintainers.
> > > > >
> > > > > That also doesn't make much sense as patches
> > > > > should not be applied that have not reached
> > > > > a mailing list for review.
> > > > >
> > > > > As long as initial outreachy patches are not
> > > > > applied and are just for internal review by
> > > > > any outside person but the outreachy list and
> > > > > are not be applied by maintainers, then perhaps
> > > > > it's best if neither maintainers nor lists are
> > > > > cc'd on the patches.
> > > >
> > > > The patches are applied by Greg.  Greg suggested the policy of adding
> > > > maintainers but not including mailing lists.  I'll let him consider
> > > > whether the policy should be changed.
> > >
> > > Well, I will comment on patches sent to the kernel list.
> > >
> > > I'm not subscribed to outreachy and I don't want to be
> > > subscribed to that list either.
> > I would prefer this outreachy work uses their own mailing list and reviews
> > their patches first.  Then once they have everything sorted out they send out
> > the patch series to the proper maintainers/mailing lists. That way we're not
> > spammed with all these emails of people as they are learning how to format and
> > send out proper patches.
>
> If you consider that you are getting too much outreachy mail at the
> moment, just let me know what subsystem you want me to add an exception
> for.

The emails seem to mostly be coming with bcm2835-audio.
> thanks,
> julia

Thanks,
 Scott
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