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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:13:43 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [LARGE patch 23/124] sets sent over and over again Re: [PATCH] ext2/3 updates for 2.5.44 (1/11): Default mount options in superblock
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On Sun, Oct 20 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know everybody wants to be cool and split their patchkit up. I'm all
> for that. But why oh why do these sets have to be sent to LKML every
> time when a new upstream kernel is released and the only change is a
> rsync? (and Ted, this is not meant as a personal assault of any kind,
> your mail was just the one that was the final drop in the bucket)
> 
> I hereby politely ask EVERYONE who wants to (re)posts large patchsets,
> to at minimum try to follow something like the following politeness
> guidelines
> 
> 1) Make it ONE thread. Do this by cc or bcc'ing yourself on the mails
>    and use the reply feature of your mailer to reply each next number of
>    the set to the previous one. This allows people that use mail/news
>    readers that can do threading to properly sort it. This is not hard,
>    and I consider it the least you can do for the people that read lklm.
> 
> 2) Do not resent all 506 parts of your patchkit every time Linus
>    releases a new kernel and all you did was merge up. Post 1 mail with
>    the fact that you did this and an URL to the patchkit if you feel
>    everyone and their dog really wants to know this fact. This does not
>    mean that if you did significant cleanup work you shouldn't repost
>    (while keeping #1 in mind), that obviously is of more interest.

Well said, I couldn't agree more.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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