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+From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer
+ preference tool
+Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:12:27 +0000
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+Message-ID: <20101116181226.GB26239@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>
+References: <1289842444.16461.140.camel@Joe-Laptop>
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+Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
+ Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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+To: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
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+On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:37:07PM +0100, Florian Mickler wrote:
+
+> My first reaction to this is, it's silly. Certainly a
+> subsystem-maintainer is capable of hacking something together that
+> suits his needs or may just use a good editor to get the job done.
+> After all, he might want to edit the commit message anyway. Also he has
+> to have his act together for all non-conforming submitters anyway,
+> because shurely, telling people to re-edit their patches subject line
+> is not what one would consider "welcoming to newbies", or whatever it
+> is kernel subsystem maintainers have to be nowadays *g*...
+
+So, my general policy on this is that I tend to push back on patches
+which don't just work with the toolset (subject lines are just one part
+of it) to a variable extent depending on who's submitting and what
+they're submitting. One of the factors is that the more patches are
+coming from someone the easier I expect their patches to be to work
+with.
+
+The reason this came up is that this is one of the issues with Joe's
+patches (which are rather frequent) but he is only willing to do things
+that he can automate.
+
+> (MAINTAINERS seems to be the logical place to put this
+> information.)
+
+Indeed.
+
+
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