On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 at 09:12, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> (collected *-by and slightly cleaned the text in commit message of [3/4]; otherwise
> identical to what had been posted and sat in #fixes)
Minor note relating to my workflow: I almost overlooked this pull
request, because it was a continuation of a thread with the subject
"[PATCHES][RFC][CFT]", and then shows up in my mailbox as part of that
thread.
So even though you had removed those RFC/CFT notes from the subject
line, that ended up being not entirely obvious in my MUA, and I was
about to archive the email before I started looking closer.
Now, this time I obviously caught it, but in general it might be safer
to make it more obvious that it has gone from a RFC to a "this is a
real pull". Not being threaded is obviously one way, or just a bigger
note to make it more obvious.
And hey, this is not generally a huge problem. I could miss emails for
other random reasons like flaky spam detectors or just plain
(hopefully rare) incompetence on my part.
So obviously the general fix to "why didn't Linus pull" is to send me
a follow-up email reminding me about missed pull requests, but I
thought I'd mention this as a "avoid potential delays and confusion"
thing.
Linus
