Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [4/4] Discuss how to better prevent backports of commits that turn out to cause regressions

Jiri Kosina
2024-06-16T08:31:04Z

On Sat, 15 Jun 2024, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> There is no excuse for that completely broken model. It's objectively
> and unquestionably worse than having a "link".

I think the 'philosophy' behind favoring Message-id over Link is that
Message-id is set in stone forever, while Link is not.

Should lore go away at some point in the future, something else will
probably take over, and you'll be able to search for Message-id there, but
the Link will not be functional any more (sure, you can extract the
Message-id: from it manually).

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs