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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] Documentation/process: Be more explicit about who
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On 04/10/2022 17:27, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> You are not _required_ to run get_maintainer to submit a patch, it is 
> simply _suggested_ so in my view the output of get_maintainer doesn't 
> negate the statement that you must mail at least one public mailing list.

And similarly, saying in a subsequent paragraph that you should always 
mail at last one public mailing list is unnecessarily disregarding 
information returned by get_maintainer.

get_maintainer produces a list of text that is very helpful to a 
developer in deciding where to send a patch. Documenting that output 
directly is a help.

But unless/until get_maintainer is _required_ to be run on any given 
patch, then we should still have a standalone paragraph which explicitly 
states a public mailing list must receive the patch.

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