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

Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-06-17T12:42:30Z

Hi Jani,

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 12:15 PM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2024, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > That's also why I detest people putting patchwork URLs instead of
> > lore URLs in the Link:-tag: finding the thread in lore requires one
> > more click on "mailing list archive" (for patchwork.kernel.org)
> > or a copy-'n-paste of the Message-Id (for oh-the-horror
> > patchwork.freedesktop.org; and what if freedesktop.org goes away?)
>
> More than 99% of the Link: tags pointing at patchwork.freedesktop.org
> have Message-ID in the URL.

Sure, I can extract the Message-ID from either the URL or the
patchwork web page. But it requires more work from my[*] side
(compared to commits from all^Wmost other subsystems).

[*] Optimize for the (many) readers, not for the (single) writer.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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