[RFC] Patchsets in a single mail? [Re: [PATCH 01/55] Add simple subunit runner outputting subunit v1.]

Michael Adam obnox at samba.org
Fri Feb 13 16:54:49 MST 2015


On 2015-02-13 at 18:00 -0500, Simo wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-02-13 at 13:57 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > 
> > +1 from me. I even find David's split out patchsets a pain
> > to deal with.
> > 
> > Why people send multi-mail patchsets I can't understand :-(.
> 
> Because they have mail clients that make it easy to deal with them :-)

Which mail client would that be for instance?
(Can't imagine any mailer doing better than
the best mail client in the world - mutt. :-)

And as I detailed, that is only part of the problem.
The lack of overview and clearness on the ML is by far
the major problem. How does a mailer help with those?... :-)

Cheers - Michael

> But it is just a matter of convention, it seem people on this list that
> are very active reviewers find it difficult, so perhaps we should steer
> towards one patchset per email.
> 
> Simo.
> -- 
> Simo Sorce
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