[alsa-devel] rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at xenotime.net
Wed Nov 17 00:28:35 CET 2010


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:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > > Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower.
> > > Some aren't consistent.  (Staging/staging)
> 
> > 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.

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~Randy
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