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

Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-14T14:38:13Z

On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:29:09AM GMT, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > 1. disambiguates Link: trailers so they point to relevant online discussions
> > 2. allows tooling like b4, patchwork, etc, to reliably match commits to
> > submissions for the purposes of better code review automation
> > 3. allows stable and similar projects to better track series grouping for
> > commits
>
> 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.

> At your suggestion I switched to using https://msgid.link/ as the target
> for patch links, eg:
>
> Link: https://msgid.link/20240529123029.146953-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au

This is still my recommendation, but it doesn't stop someone from using
msgid.link URLs to link to actual discussions. It also doesn't solve the
problem being discussed here -- reliably mapping commits to patch submissions
for the purposes of automation.

-K