[oe] [RFC] Post a heads-up [HEADS UP] mail when an intrusive patch has landed in dev or stable

[Philip Balister]

Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> RFC:
> 
> we have had some proposed intrusive patches land in the metadata with
> only a few people aware of the fact they landed at all (or why).
> 
> Proposal is to post a "[HEADS UP] Description of changed behaviour"
> email on the -devel mailing list when you pushed an intrusive patch.
> 
> Do this in a new thread (not replying to an old thread).
> 
> 
> The current situation is that the intrusive push go-ahead is often at
> the tail of a thread, and not every dev can track all RFC's.
> 
> It helps people jump in on the change early.

I'm not really sure this will help matters. In some cases, people do not 
realize the nasty side effect will occur.

Philip
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