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Message-ID: <m162y89r2e.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:24:09 -0700
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Stephen Hemminger \(role\:commit_signer\)" <shemminger@...tta.com>,
"Wolfram Sang \(role\:commit_signer\)" <w.sang@...gutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default
Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org> writes:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:16:30 -0700
> ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org> writes:
>>
>
>> Adding an "ignore me" tag to email addresses generated by
>> get_maintainer.pl would only encourage people to filter those emails
>> when they get them, which is not what we want.
>
> If people get angry, we want them to have those emails filtered away.
What we want is a better signal to noise ratio so people don't feel
compelled to filter or get angry.
What we really don't want are additional penalties for being a prolific
kernel developer, we have enough of those already.
Eric
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