Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964832AbWAQUlA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:41:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964828AbWAQUlA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:41:00 -0500 Received: from mailgw3.ericsson.se ([193.180.251.60]:13964 "EHLO mailgw3.ericsson.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964832AbWAQUk7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:40:59 -0500 Message-ID: <43CD0FD8.4090003@ericsson.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:40:08 +0000 From: Jon Maloy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: Per Liden , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Allan Stephens , tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] TIPC: add Kconfig help text References: <200601172058.31503.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> <9a8748490601171224q15d1b8e9n23706782c85f26d7@mail.gmail.com> <9a8748490601171238y12be9933ha8068985cf2a1cbf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a8748490601171238y12be9933ha8068985cf2a1cbf@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jan 2006 20:40:55.0410 (UTC) FILETIME=[50673520:01C61BA6] X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2501 Lines: 71 That has also been fixed, but not pulled in yet. Same reason as above. ///jon Jesper Juhl wrote: >On 1/17/06, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > >>On 1/17/06, Per Liden wrote: >> >> >>>I've already committed a patch similar to this in our GIT repo >>>(http://tipc.cslab.ericsson.net), just haven't asked for it to be pulled >>>yet since we have another fix for some namespace pullution in the >>>pipeline. Thanks though! >>> >>> >>> >>Good enough for me :-) >> >> >> > >Let me just pick another little nit here. > >Your entries in the MAINTAINERS file for TIPC; >Would it be too much to ask that you list the *correct* email >addresses for people in there instead of the @nospam.ericsson.com >obfuscated ones? > >As I see it, listing the obfuscated addresses buys you nothing, since >you are using the real address to post to a public (and widely >archived) mailing list anyway, and has a few real drawbacks: > >- some users (especially users who are not native english speakers) >may not realize that the "nospam." bit should be taken out and thus >you may miss emails. > >- it adds extra work (small, but still) on everyone who looks up the >maintainer for TIPC to send you guys emails to parse the addr and >realize the addr needs to be edited and then actually edit it instead >of just cut'n'paste. > >- it's somewhat annoying. > > >I even opted to send the patch to both the @nospam.ericsson.com and >@ericsson.com addresses since I didn't know if "nospam." was to be >taken out or if it was just some subdomain you used specifically for >communication on public lists that you then did extra SPAM filtering >on - there's no way to know. >If you are worried about getting extra SPAM by being listed in >MAINTAINERS, why don't you just create an extra email alias that you >list in MAINTAINERS and use for LKML stuff - that alias you can then >do extra filtering on, dump in a seperate mailbox/folder/whatever... I >don't think you actually gain anything by your current scheeme. > >I'll stop ranting now ;) > >-- >Jesper Juhl >Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html >Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/