Re: A note from the maintainer

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 14, 2016, 12:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20160814122351.oblpop2qu4wjrhdx@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20160814021234.GA1017@starla>

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 02:12:34AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

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> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> > Thanks, should all be imported.
> 
> Oops, missed one which was missing X-Mailing-List (causing
> it to not get imported) and had "X-No-Archive: yes" set;
> which meant I couldn't get it from gmane this year.
> 
> Hmm... XNAY defeats the point of public-inbox (and probably the
> point of public-to-all mailing lists); so I don't think it's
> worth honoring.

I didn't even think to look for that header. It looks like it's basically all one guy. I would argue that it should not be honored for the git dev list, if only because those emails are a record of the provenance of patches. The Signed-off-by is a certification that the patch is OK to submit, but it's presumably worth more with an audit trail including the email headers.

(Also, I have always found it a little silly to post publicly with a "please don't anybody record this!" header).

-Peff