Re: sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx's Cc list on reviews

[Sean Christopherson]

On Mon, May 18, 2026, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hey Roman!
> >
> > Sashiko's choice of Cc is... odd.  The original mail has a whole pile of folks
> > in both the To: and Cc:, but sashiko-bot is only replying to myself and (very
> > bizarrely) linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
> >
> > Oooh, is it perhaps because linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the only mailing
> > list on the original Cc that has opted-in to getting emails?  If that's the case,
> > we might want to change that, even though it could result in people getting grumpy
> > about unwanted bot mail, because IMO the alternative is worse.  I've been responding
> > to some (mostly very good!) good sashiko-bot feedback, but only just now noticed
> > that the vast majority of folks on the To/Cc of the original patch won't see the
> > reviews.  That's bound to cause confusion, e.g. if someone reports the same issues
> > and/or manually looks at sashiko.dev.
> 
> Hi Sean!
> 
> It's expected per configuration here:
> https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko/blob/main/sashiko.dev/email_policy.toml#L138
> .
> It can be configured to reply to all as well, but since there are some
> very vocal anti-AI folks in the community, this might create some
> friction. 

Heh, "might".

> In any case, I'm relying on the corresponding maintainers' decision on how
> they want to configure Sashiko.

What level of configurability does the parser have?  Specifically, can it key off
the Cc/To in addition to the list?  I ask because I really, really, want to enable
auto-mailing for at least KVM x86, but kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is wildly overloaded.
I could try and drive consensus across all 30+ maintainers, but if there's a way
to precisely enable it for just KVM x86...

E.g. is there a way to do something like:

[subsystems.kvm_x86]
lists = ["kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" && <email is To: seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]
reply_all = true