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From: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Add "B:" preferred bug reporting method
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:33:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A791AF.9030804@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453819327.28952.93.camel@perches.com>

On 26/01/16 14:42, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 11:10 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> Different subsystems and drivers have different preferred ways of
>> receiving bug reports; mailing list or bugzillas at various
>> locations. Add "B:" entry for specifying the preference to guide bug
>> reporters at the right location.
> []
>> v2: drop the B: entry for i915 due to bikeshedding, let's see if there's
>> a chance this B: entry sticks in general
> []
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 30aca4aa5467..c9da3a2af398 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
>>   	L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
>>   	W: Web-page with status/info
>>   	Q: Patchwork web based patch tracking system site
>> +	B: Preferred method for reporting bugs; bug tracking system site
>> +	   or "List" for mailing list.
>
> I think that "List" is not a good idea.
>
> Intermixing mailing list email addresses and URLs seems
> odd and inconsistent.
>
> Maybe there could be something like the "T:" and "S:"
> entries where some additional qualifier is used for the
> specific type of bug reporting.

Make it a proper URI, allowing mailto:<listname@domain>
or http://bugzilla.org/i915/ or anything else that people
may come up with in future :)

.Dave.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-26 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26  9:10 [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Add "B:" preferred bug reporting method Jani Nikula
2016-01-26 14:36 ` Joe Perches
2016-01-26 14:42 ` Joe Perches
2016-01-26 14:49   ` Richard Weinberger
2016-01-26 15:05     ` Jani Nikula
2016-01-26 14:55   ` Jani Nikula
2016-01-26 15:33   ` Dave Gordon [this message]
2016-01-26 20:14     ` Joe Perches
2016-01-27 16:47 ` ✗ Fi.CI.BAT: failure for MAINTAINERS: Add "B:" preferred bug reporting method (rev3) Patchwork
2016-01-27 17:16   ` Joe Perches
2016-01-27 17:38     ` Damien Lespiau
2016-01-27 17:03 ` ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success " Patchwork
2016-01-28 14:06 ` Patchwork

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