On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:41:29PM +0000, Sam Thursfield wrote: > Hi > > I always thought that we had the following policy when sending > revised versions of patches: > > - Use the --in-reply-to=<message-id> parameter so that they appear > within the same conversation thread. (The message ID should be that > of the cover letter of your first patch, found in the mail headers) > > - Prepend "V2", "V3" etc to the title of the mail > > I notice none of this is mentioned in > http://wiki.baserock.org/contributing/, I'll add it, unless it turns > out I've been wrong and our policy is something different.

We haven't specified this anywhere, and while I do appreciate patches that are threaded in this way, I'm not sure it's a strong enough reason to mandate it in policy.

I do think that it is a useful suggestion to add to the contributing page though.

I do think it is worth making it a requirement that every merged patch is replied to, so that it is easier to see which patches have not been reviewed.