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

Mark Brown
2024-06-14T15:45:57Z

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On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 10:38:12AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:29:09AM GMT, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> > Message-Id: sucks, I want a link I can open with a single click.

> But why would you want to, on a regular basis? Viewing the series submission
> has got to provide near zero useful info -- if it was accepted into the tree,
> then at most it would have a couple of stray code review trailers.

The two scenarios I run into really often are when doing archeology to
try to figure out if there's any extra context for a patch (eg, a wider
series it was embedded in) or when some problem has been found in CI and
I want to figure out who to tell about it or if anyone else saw similar
issues.

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