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[PATCH] etc: Stop making sendemail behave strangely.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 64151 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#64151] [PATCH] etc: Stop making sendemail behave strangely.
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2023 11:36:26 +0200

Hi,

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> Even with such a hypothetical --exclude-whomever switch added, I'd
> argue that it is wrong to magically install this configuration without
> any user interaction.

Maybe that’s the main grief: that the new config was suddenly installed
without fellow hackers realizing it (I, for one, wondered initially what
magic made ‘git send-email’ Cc: all my friends :-)).

Perhaps one way out is to suggest it in the manual without installing it
automatically?  WDYT, Maxim?

(Independently of that, we’ll have to discuss patch review again.  We
believed one problem was that potential reviewers wouldn’t notice
patches in their area.  That’s arguably no longer the case, yet this
hasn’t had any noticeable effect in terms of review activity.  How
should we approach that?)

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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