[ligurio]

I appreciate the effort here, but in the proposed workflow are missed steps with subscribing to a mailing list. Without proper subscriptions and confirming subscription, your mails with patches will go to trash.

[emersion]

That's not true in general. Many mailing lists accept emails from unsubscribed users, some moderate them (requiring moderator approval for the first post), but I don't know of any which outright rejects such emails.

[Avamander]

I might be remembering wrong but I think hostapd's list rejects like that.

In any case, even the possibility of such an outcome is not pleasant.