linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to reviewers

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Message-ID: <ZRqEQ2uxAlCyihS3@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 2 Oct 2023 01:50:11 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications
 to reviewers

On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 10:36:01AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Oct 2023, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.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 :)