Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> writes: > Please stop Cc'ing me emails sent to, at least, qemu-trivial@.
I'll try to remember, but in general you can't expect everyone to keep tabs on who wants and who doesn't want to be copied. > I'm about to filter personal emails which are also sent to > some mailinglists I receive. I'd not do that, because this is > a good practice to Cc someone like that for various really > important or urgent emails, and if I to apply such a filter, > these urgent emails will be filtered too, obviously. > > I'm not sure how people treat these cases or deal with them. > We are subscribed to, in particular, qemu-devel@, and active > maintainers look there too, so receive more than one copy of > many emails. I believe fighting the established convention to copy is futile. I embrace it instead, and make it help me prioritize my reading. Copy me, and I'll at least skim cover letters and other thread-starters to determine whether I need to follow this thread. Don't copy me, and I'll at best glance at the subject in passing. Automatic filing into folders and marking copies so I don't have to mark them read twice helps. The additional traffic is a drop in a bucket. > It is becoming worse. With get_maintainer.pl pulling addresses > of people who made changes or commits to files by default, > contributing to the project becomes a bit dangerous. Because > as a result, once you fix something, you're essentially being > subscribed to a spam list, because other contributors start > Ccing you for the patches with which you have absolutely nothing > to do, and if a discussion emerges, you can't opt out of it > anymore (especially for patches which raise hot discussions). > So I'd rather think twice before contributing anything... That's sad.
