Obsolete instruction in SubmittingPatches?

Hello,

It seems to me that this part of Documentation/SubmittingPatches is not actual nowadays:

  After the list reached a consensus that it is a good idea to apply the
  patch, re-send it with "To:" set to the maintainer{1} and "cc:" the
  list{2} for inclusion.

From what I observe in the mailing list, most patches are sent with "To:" set to mailing list (or re-sent with increasing version) , as per previous paragraph in the guidelines [1]. Then, after the topic is reviewed and the [PATCH v<last>] series receives a thumbs up from a number of people, the maintainer--Junio C Hamano--replies with an email containing something along the lines of "This change is in good shape. Thanks, will queue.", which makes me think that the re-send is not actually needed.

Is this part of guidelines obsolete, or am I not understanding this correctly?

[1] "Send your patch with "To:" set to the mailing list, with "cc:"
    listing people who are involved in the area you are touching"

-- Best regards, Andrei Rybak

Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com> writes:

I am merely being nice (but only on "time-permitting" basis).

On 01.03.2018 0:54, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Does that mean that the integration of a series is easier, when there is a re-send?

Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com> writes:

When I am not interested in a topic, or there are other reviewers who are more qualified and are interested in the topic than I am, the protocol to require the final "Here is a verbatim final resend, the only difference from what was reviewed is the reviewed-by's from the reviewers." will let me completely ignore the topic while it is being discussed (as long as I trust the judgment of these reviewers).

Otherwise I'd need to keep track of the progress of the discussion on each and every topic, which is often impossible.