On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 10:00:12AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 08:23:06AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > Peter Xu <[email protected]> writes: > > > I don't know if that'll work because logically we can also copy anyone or > > > lists only when sending patches (e.g. with "git send-email --cc").. > > > > For what it's worth, scripts/get_maintainer.pl would have told us to cc: > > libvirt with this line: > > > > [email protected] (open list:Incompatible changes) > > > > > For now, I'll just remember to always copy libvirt list on touching > > > deprecation file. My apologize if it caused any unwanted surprise. > > > > We cannot and do not expect a patch submitter to know and remember > > everything. We rely on tooling and review to catch misses in time. > > Doesn't always work, because nothing and nobody's perfect. > > If any contributor is sending patches to QEMU, please don't use the raw > 'git send-email' command directly. Instead use 'git-publish' which wraps > 'send-email' with logic that automatically consults get_maintainer.pl. > > This means you'll always CC the required people by default, and have > to conciously make an effort to drop them from the CC list.
I am using git-publish, I found that it's because I have my own profile setup so it didn't use the default profile provided in .gitpublish, which offered cccmd=. Now I've added that into my setup too, thanks for the suggestion. -- Peter Xu
