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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to commenters
Hello Thomas,

Am Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 08:30:03AM +0200 schrieb Thomas Weißschuh:
> Commenters may not receive new versions of patches via the lists.
> Without a directed notification to them they might miss those new
> versions.
>
> This is frustrating for the patch developers as they don't receive their
> earned Reviewed-by.
> It is also frustrating for the commenters, as they might think their
> review got ignored or they have to dig up new versions from the archive
> manually.
>
> So encourage patch submitters to make sure that all commenters get
> notified also when no Reviewed-by was issued yet.

Appreciate your suggestion. Not sure if every commenter would like to
be included in follow up iterations of a patch series, but for the few
things I comment on, I would be interested.

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - s/reviewer/commenter/ to avoid ambiguity (Christoph)
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927-docs-cc-reviewer-v1-1-2af46ceb2d3c@weissschuh.net
> ---
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index efac910e2659..3245b7b38b98 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -327,6 +327,8 @@ politely and address the problems they have pointed out. When sending a next
> version, add a ``patch changelog`` to the cover letter or to individual patches
> explaining difference against previous submission (see
> :ref:`the_canonical_patch_format`).
> +Notify people that commented on your patch about new versions by adding them to
> +the patches CC list.

Acked-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>

Greets
Alex

>
> See Documentation/process/email-clients.rst for recommendations on email
> clients and mailing list etiquette.
>
> ---
> base-commit: 633b47cb009d09dc8f4ba9cdb3a0ca138809c7c7
> change-id: 20230926-docs-cc-reviewer-023b3730af23
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
>

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