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

Mark Brown
2024-06-14T15:42:09Z

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On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 10:51:53AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 03:43:18PM GMT, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Actually now that you mention it some terminals (GNOME I think?) have a
> > feature where they'll identify strings with an @ in them as e-mail
> > addresses and if you click on one they'll try to fire up some GUI mail
> > client with a new e-mail addressed to that. This interacts poorly with
> > using message IDs a lot.

> Yeah, but same would happen if you accidentally click on anyone's email
> address in the trailers, so I'm not sure how this has any different impact?

The suggested workflow was to go cut'n'pasting message IDs when using
them, it's a lot more likely that you'll click on something you're
actively trying to cut'n'paste individually than a random part of the
trailers.

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