Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] get_maintainer: stop sending every patch to LKML
From: Konstantin Ryabitsev
Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 15:19:51 EST
On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 08:10:57AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> MAINTAINERS/get_maintainers is public and requires
> senders generating the correct mailto: entries.
>
> Maybe undo that and make lore/vger create all the
> to/cc entries using a single kernel mailing address.
The trouble I have with this approach is if we're down, nobody would get any
patches. The messy approach of sticking everyone into to/cc has built-in
resilience that continues to function even if someone knocked kernel.org off
the map.
-K