1From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> 2Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem 3 maintainer preference tool 4Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:50:26 +0000 5Lines: 23 6Message-ID: <20101116235025.GA7256@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> 7References: <1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop> 8 <20101116183707.179964dd@schatten.dmk.lab> 9 <20101116181226.GB26239@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 10 <20101116203522.65240b18@schatten.dmk.lab> 11 <20101116195530.GA7523@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 12 <20101116122102.86e7e0b9.rdunlap@xenotime.net> 13 <1289940156.28741.207.camel@Joe-Laptop> 14 <20101116124609.382e42fb.rdunlap@xenotime.net> 15 <20101116232258.GC24623@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> 16 <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> 17Mime-Version: 1.0 18Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 19Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 20Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>, 21 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>, 22 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 23To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> 24X-From: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Wed Nov 17 00:50:24 2010 25Return-path: <alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org> 26Envelope-to: glad-alsa-devel-2@m.gmane.org 27Received: from alsa0.perex.cz ([212.20.107.51]) 28 by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) 29 (envelope-from <alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org>) 30 id 1PIVI7-00006s-O3 31 for glad-alsa-devel-2@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:23 +0100 32Received: by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix, from userid 1000) 33 id F007910388B; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:22 +0100 (CET) 34X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on mail1.perex.cz 35X-Spam-Level: 36X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled 37 version=3.2.4 38Received: from alsa0.perex.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) 39 by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0B9103822; 40 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:21 +0100 (CET) 41X-Original-To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 42Delivered-To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 43Received: by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix, from userid 1000) 44 id AD918103822; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:19 +0100 (CET) 45Received: from opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (opensource.wolfsonmicro.com 46 [80.75.67.52]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C5A10381B 47 for <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:19 +0100 (CET) 48Received: from finisterre.wolfsonmicro.main 49 (cpc3-sgyl4-0-0-cust125.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com [82.41.240.126]) 50 by opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B19503B4628; 51 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:50:18 +0000 (GMT) 52Received: from broonie by finisterre.wolfsonmicro.main with local (Exim 4.72) 53 (envelope-from <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>) 54 id 1PIVIA-0003UP-7d; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:50:26 +0000 55Content-Disposition: inline 56In-Reply-To: <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> 57X-Cookie: You enjoy the company of other people. 58User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 59X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 60X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 61Precedence: list 62List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - 63 http://www.alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel.alsa-project.org> 64List-Unsubscribe: <http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel>, 65 <mailto:alsa-devel-request@alsa-project.org?subject=unsubscribe> 66List-Archive: <http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel> 67List-Post: <mailto:alsa-devel@alsa-project.org> 68List-Help: <mailto:alsa-devel-request@alsa-project.org?subject=help> 69List-Subscribe: <http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel>, 70 <mailto:alsa-devel-request@alsa-project.org?subject=subscribe> 71Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org 72Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org 73Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1063501> 74 75On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:28:35PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: 76> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:22:58 +0000 Mark Brown wrote: 77> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: 78 79> > > Case usually doesn't matter to most of us. 80 81> > Given that we're working in case sensitive languages here it's probably 82> > safe to assume that a reasonable proportion of people will care; being 83> > reasonably consistent with existing practice for the subsystem seems 84> > sensible. 85 86> Greg takes patches that say STAGING or Staging or staging. 87 88> DaveM takes patches that say net: or netdev: or network: or NET: 89 90> The sound maintainers take patches that say sound: or alsa: or ALSA: 91 92> etc. 93 94...and best practice would be to pay attention to what the standard 95thing is for the subsystem and follow that. We shouldn't be suggesting 96that people just ignore the case, though obviously if it's not clear 97then it's not worth worrying too much about it. 98 99 100