Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 01/12] xenctx: Clean up stack trace when hypercall_page not in symbol table

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 07.11.13 at 09:22, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 08:07 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> And a note on patch submission: You send _to_ the list, and _cc_
>> maintainers and other relevant people (without stretching the
>> meaning of "relevant" too much).
> 
> Do we need such a rule? Why is it useful?
> 
> I personally don't mind which field causes the mail to arrive in my
> INBOX. I suppose you filter "To: xen-devel; Cc: Jan" differently to "To:
> Jan; Cc: xen-devel"?

Exactly. Mails Cc-ed to me get treated almost equally to all other
xen-devel traffic, whereas mails directed at me mean to me that
a response or other kind of action is expected. Basically the
usual (common sense?) email rules...

So maybe I was too strict about the maintainer part - I don't mind
being sent mails to me that fall under the areas I'm maintainer of,
since there I'm obviously requested to take some sort of action.
But in the case here I certainly feel it was wrong to send the
whole series _to_ everyone.

> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches#Cc_the_maintainer_of_ 
> the_code_you_are_modifying is confusingly worded and somewhat contradictory, 
> in that it initially requests to send to the maintainer and then later to cc 
> them. As I say, I don't think it really matters which but if you care then it 
> would be useful to clarify the wording there.

Yes, I think we should.

Jan


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