Re: [PATCH v2] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to commenters

[Alexander Dahl]

Hello Thomas,

Am Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 08:30:03AM +0200 schrieb Thomas Weißschuh:
> Commenters may not receive new versions of patches via the lists.
> Without a directed notification to them they might miss those new
> versions.
> 
> This is frustrating for the patch developers as they don't receive their
> earned Reviewed-by.
> It is also frustrating for the commenters, as they might think their
> review got ignored or they have to dig up new versions from the archive
> manually.
> 
> So encourage patch submitters to make sure that all commenters get
> notified also when no Reviewed-by was issued yet.

Appreciate your suggestion.  Not sure if every commenter would like to
be included in follow up iterations of a patch series, but for the few
things I comment on, I would be interested.

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - s/reviewer/commenter/ to avoid ambiguity (Christoph)
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927-docs-cc-reviewer-v1-1-2af46ceb2d3c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index efac910e2659..3245b7b38b98 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -327,6 +327,8 @@ politely and address the problems they have pointed out.  When sending a next
>  version, add a ``patch changelog`` to the cover letter or to individual patches
>  explaining difference against previous submission (see
>  :ref:`the_canonical_patch_format`).
> +Notify people that commented on your patch about new versions by adding them to
> +the patches CC list.

Acked-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Greets
Alex

>  
>  See Documentation/process/email-clients.rst for recommendations on email
>  clients and mailing list etiquette.
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 633b47cb009d09dc8f4ba9cdb3a0ca138809c7c7
> change-id: 20230926-docs-cc-reviewer-023b3730af23
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>