Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: only use THE REST as a fallback

From: Jason A. Donenfeld

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 12:41:24 EST


On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev
<konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> - THE REST actually works as a fallback
> - patches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is included on all patches as an archival list

Couldn't this list be programmatically populated? Lore is already
watching every other mailing list. Can it simply post ones to patches@
that patches@ hasn't already seen? Then we don't need to worry about
the folly of trying to teach people about another list and such.

Jason