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 <[email protected]> > --- > Changes in v2: > - s/reviewer/commenter/ to avoid ambiguity (Christoph) > - Link to v1: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] > --- > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >
