[PATCH] gitpublish: Drop custom prefix

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Wed Mar 3 10:50:37 UTC 2021


On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 10:22 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Now that all projects except the main library are using GitLab
> > merge requests, all the patches that end up on libvir-list are by
> > definition intended for libvirt itself rather than one of the
> > subprojects, and so it's no longer necessary to include additional
> > information in the mail subject.
> 
> It is still useful to have libvirt in the subject as a person's inbox
> may have mail from multiple different mailing lists, and this subject
> prefix distinguishes them.

That will not work reliably as it's not enforced.

Looking at the virtualization-related mailing lists I'm subscribed
to, on qemu-devel the prefix is never used, and on both libvir-list
and virt-tools-list you can find patches using it as well as patches
not using it.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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