From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:50:26 +0000 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <20101116235025.GA7256@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101116183707.179964dd@schatten.dmk.lab> <20101116181226.GB26239@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20101116203522.65240b18@schatten.dmk.lab> <20101116195530.GA7523@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20101116122102.86e7e0b9.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1289940156.28741.207.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101116124609.382e42fb.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20101116232258.GC24623@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jiri Kosina , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Mickler , Joe Perches , Andrew Morton To: Randy Dunlap X-From: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Wed Nov 17 00:50:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: glad-alsa-devel-2@m.gmane.org Received: from alsa0.perex.cz ([212.20.107.51]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIVI7-00006s-O3 for glad-alsa-devel-2@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:23 +0100 Received: by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F007910388B; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:22 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on mail1.perex.cz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 Received: from alsa0.perex.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0B9103822; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:21 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Delivered-To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Received: by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD918103822; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (opensource.wolfsonmicro.com [80.75.67.52]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C5A10381B for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:50:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from finisterre.wolfsonmicro.main (cpc3-sgyl4-0-0-cust125.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com [82.41.240.126]) by opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B19503B4628; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:50:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from broonie by finisterre.wolfsonmicro.main with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PIVIA-0003UP-7d; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:50:26 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Cookie: You enjoy the company of other people. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Archived-At: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:28:35PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:22:58 +0000 Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > Case usually doesn't matter to most of us. > > Given that we're working in case sensitive languages here it's probably > > safe to assume that a reasonable proportion of people will care; being > > reasonably consistent with existing practice for the subsystem seems > > sensible. > Greg takes patches that say STAGING or Staging or staging. > DaveM takes patches that say net: or netdev: or network: or NET: > The sound maintainers take patches that say sound: or alsa: or ALSA: > etc. ...and best practice would be to pay attention to what the standard thing is for the subsystem and follow that. We shouldn't be suggesting that people just ignore the case, though obviously if it's not clear then it's not worth worrying too much about it.