From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755756Ab1GQKru (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:47:50 -0400 Received: from ist.d-labs.de ([213.239.218.44]:58096 "EHLO mx01.d-labs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755693Ab1GQKrt (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:47:49 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:47:34 +0200 From: Florian Mickler To: Alan Cox Cc: Michael Witten , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: Large Patch Series in Email (was Re: [PATCH 0000/0117] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup) Message-ID: <20110717124734.3a28aead@schatten.dmk.lab> In-Reply-To: <20110716000739.3239bac8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1310752024-27854-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <84fa825a57d34571a5aa66ae7299461c-mfwitten@gmail.com> <20110716000739.3239bac8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:07:39 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > Do not send more than 15 patches at once to the vger > > mailing lists!!! > > > > and, accordingly, I went to the trouble of setting up a GitHub > > account to host a repo from which I could issue *one* single > > PULL request email; I get a little miffed every time my > > inbox gets blasted with hundreds of patches when others don't > > do similarly. > > The problem with dumping stuff that needs review into a git tree is it's > a lot of hassle to review so the advice is kind of outdated in such cases. > It's good advice for things like big new subsystems perhaps but not for > review. > > As is always the case social norms evolve faster than the people who feel > compelled to attempt to document them. > > There are lots of web archives of the list and it's also not hard to set > up mail tools to shuffle long emails into a folder so there are plenty of > ways to manage and read the lists without being part of it. > > And someone should probably updating the CodingStyle document to reflect > reality 8) > > Alan And while at it, maybe add some tipps on how to keep patchseries small... (people have probably more / better suggestions, please): - 'submit early, submit often' instead of time based submittal (like... oh I hacked 24/7 this week and now is friday, let's see how many patches I got...) - Putting controversial stuff at the end (so at least uncontroversial stuff can be applied) - try to split patchseries into stuff that can be applied independent of one another. - ... Regards, Flo