On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:56:25 -0700 Shuah wrote:
To me the dissonance between your admission that people don't CC the current list (IOW status quo isn't great) and the resistance to change is fairly apparent. But it is obviously your call.
My thinking is that people don't seem to CC the one mailing list we have and adding one more would add to the problem.
Are there other ways to solve the problem by using prefix like we do now for subsystem tests: selftests:framework?
I think the ideal solution would be to let people subscribe to code paths rather the deal with mailing lists in the first place :( That way we can fix this on the "mailing list backend" rather than expecting people who submit code to do the right thing.
Konstantin did some work on auto-CC based on get_maintainer output, whether vger would just fill in the missing CCs, but AFAIR he got stuck on the need to modify headers which would break DKIM.
I should mention that lore/lei does support filtering / subscribing to paths etc, but from experience bringing folks into upstream reviews - running lore/lei doesn't work for everyone. I also don't use it because it doesn't support the mbox format of my MUA :(
At the current state of affairs, since we can't fix the "receiver" side easily, we have to shift the responsibility on the "sender" side. Hope people run get_maintainer, and have well defined lists..