[PATCH] doc: remove confusing command to send patch

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Oct 10 18:26:35 CEST 2023


In the contributor guide, it was said that no need to Cc maintainers
for new additions, probably for new directories not having a maintainer.
There is no harm, and it is a good habit, to always Cc maintainers.

Remove this case as it can mislead to not Cc maintainers when needed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
---
 doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index e286d9e6d5..d114ceba2b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -561,10 +561,6 @@ Script ``get-maintainer.sh`` can be used to select maintainers automatically::
 
   git send-email --to-cmd ./devtools/get-maintainer.sh --cc dev at dpdk.org 000*.patch
 
-New additions can be sent without a maintainer::
-
-   git send-email --to dev at dpdk.org 000*.patch
-
 You can test the emails by sending it to yourself or with the ``--dry-run`` option.
 
 If the patch is in relation to a previous email thread you can add it to the same thread using the Message ID::
-- 
2.42.0



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