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From:   Thomas =?utf-8?Q?Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications
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On 2023-10-02 01:50:11-0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 10:36:01AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > On Sun, 01 Oct 2023, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 09:24:57AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > >> > This does not scale.
> > >> 
> > >> Could you elaborate in which way it doesn't scale?
> > >
> > > If I send a modest cross-subsystem series it often touches 20+
> > > subsystems.  Between mailing lists and maintainers that's usually
> > > already 60+ recipients.  If you now add a another 2-3 maintainers
> > > we're just going to hit limits in mail servers.
> > 
> > I thought this was about adding people who have commented on previous
> > versions to Cc. That's usually a very limited number.
> 
> Oh, that absolutely makes sense.  But maybe we need to stop overloading
> the term reviewer :)

Thanks Jani for fixing the misunderstanding!

I'll try to find some better wording.