From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:28:35 -0800 Organization: YPO4 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <1289850773.16461.166.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101116104921.GL12986@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101116183707.179964dd@schatten.dmk.lab> <20101116181226.GB26239@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20101116203522.65240b18@schatten.dmk.lab> <20101116195530.GA7523@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20101116122102.86e7e0b9.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1289940156.28741.207.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101116124609.382e42fb.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20101116232258.GC24623@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jiri Kosina , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Mickler , Joe Perches , Andrew Morton To: Mark Brown X-From: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Wed Nov 17 00:29:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: glad-alsa-devel-2@m.gmane.org Received: from alsa0.perex.cz ([212.20.107.51]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIUxP-0004iI-Hq for glad-alsa-devel-2@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:28:59 +0100 Received: by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD65410388C; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:28:58 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on mail1.perex.cz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 Received: from alsa0.perex.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21296103822; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:28:57 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Delivered-To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Received: by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 58AE7103822; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:28:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from xenotime.net (xenotime.net [72.52.115.56]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with SMTP id 1947B10381B for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:28:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from chimera.site ([173.50.240.230]) by xenotime.net for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:28:36 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20101116232258.GC24623@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Archived-At: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:22:58 +0000 Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Joe Perches wrote: > > > > Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower. > > > Some aren't consistent. (Staging/staging) > > > Case usually doesn't matter to most of us. > > Given that we're working in case sensitive languages here it's probably > safe to assume that a reasonable proportion of people will care; being > reasonably consistent with existing practice for the subsystem seems > sensible. Greg takes patches that say STAGING or Staging or staging. DaveM takes patches that say net: or netdev: or network: or NET: The sound maintainers take patches that say sound: or alsa: or ALSA: etc. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***