On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:28 -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:
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.
Greg seems to rewrite patch subjects and is inconsistent about case, so he might be doing that by hand.
DaveM takes patches that say net: or netdev: or network: or NET:
DaveM doesn't appear to be choosy about patch subject lines. He seems to take any sensible patch and as far as I know he doesn't edit the subject lines. He does reject inferior patches outright.
The sound maintainers take patches that say sound: or alsa: or ALSA:
The sound maintainers seem to rewrite patch subjects on an ad-hoc basis.