Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: make linux-mediatek list remarks consistent
From: Matthias Brugger
Date: Tue Sep 15 2020 - 04:42:15 EST
On 14/09/2020 16:12, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Mon, 2020-09-14 at 16:01 +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
I am not subscribed to linux-mediatek. When I sent an email to the list,
it showed up really seconds later in the lore.kernel.org of the
linux-mediatek public-inbox repository. So, either it was delivered
quickly as it is not moderated or my check with lore.kernel.org is wrong,
e.g., mails show up in the lore.kernel.org archive, even they were not
yet permitted on the actual list.
I'm the moderator and I get requests to moderate emails. I suppose I added you
to the accepted list because of earlier emails you send.
Okay, I see. I did send some clean-up patch in the past, but I completely
forgot that, but my mailbox did not forget. So, now it is clear to me why
that mail showed up so quickly.
Thanks for the explanation.
AFAICT the linux-mediatek list isn't configured to automatically
moderate messages from non-subscribers. Its generic_nonmember_action
setting is 'Accept'. That is the default setting for lists on
infradead.org and I strongly encourage list maintainers to leave it
that way.
Ok, thanks for clarification. I never bothered too much with all the
configuration option of the list. :|
Lukas, I don't see your address in the allowlist either.
I tried to find that in the web interface, but wasn't able to find the list.
Regards,
Matthias
There are other reasons why some messages get might trapped for
moderation — the message size, number of recipients, spam score, etc.
The mere fact that *some* messages are moderated does not mean that the
list is "moderated for non-subscribers" in the sense that the
MAINTAINERS file lists.
Bjorn, with that confirmation and Reviewed-by from Matthias, could you
please pick this patch?
I think we should be fixing the ones that *do* say it's moderated for
non-subscribers, not the one that correctly didn't :)