From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:57:55 -0800 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <1289951875.28741.261.camel@Joe-Laptop> 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> <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Brown , Florian Mickler , Jiri Kosina , Andrew Morton , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Randy Dunlap X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 17 00:58:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIVPr-0004pn-AW for glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:58:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757099Ab0KPX56 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:57:58 -0500 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1485 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751238Ab0KPX55 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:57:57 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.162] (unknown [192.168.1.162]) by mail.perches.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B3A24368; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:55:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:28 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > 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. Greg seems to rewrite patch subjects and is inconsistent about case, so he might be doing that by hand. > DaveM takes patches that say net: or netdev: or network: or NET: DaveM doesn't appear to be choosy about patch subject lines. He seems to take any sensible patch and as far as I know he doesn't edit the subject lines. He does reject inferior patches outright. > The sound maintainers take patches that say sound: or alsa: or ALSA: The sound maintainers seem to rewrite patch subjects on an ad-hoc basis.