Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:55:56 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
        Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:57:55 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:28 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:22:58 +0000 Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > > Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower.
> > > > > Some aren't consistent.  (Staging/staging)
> > > > Case usually doesn't matter to most of us.
> > > Given that we're working in case sensitive languages here it's probably
> > > safe to assume that a reasonable proportion of people will care; being
> > > reasonably consistent with existing practice for the subsystem seems
> > > sensible.
> > Greg takes patches that say STAGING or Staging or staging.
> 
> Greg seems to rewrite patch subjects and is inconsistent
> about case, so he might be doing that by hand.
> 
> > DaveM takes patches that say net: or netdev: or network: or NET:
> 
> DaveM doesn't appear to be choosy about patch subject lines.
> He seems to take any sensible patch and as far as I know he
> doesn't edit the subject lines.  He does reject inferior
> patches outright.
> 
> > The sound maintainers take patches that say sound: or alsa: or ALSA:
> 
> The sound maintainers seem to rewrite patch subjects on an
> ad-hoc basis.

OK, I can accept your summary.
However, I can't tell that we are making any progress.

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~Randy
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