[PATCH] doc: remove confusing command to send patch
fengchengwen
fengchengwen at huawei.com
Wed Oct 11 04:04:41 CEST 2023
Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>
On 2023/10/11 0:26, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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::
>
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