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

Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-14T14:51:55Z

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 03:43:18PM GMT, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Message-Id: sucks, I want a link I can open with a single click.
>
> > 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
>
> > Which gives the reader a hint that the link is just to the submission.
>
> > I don't really care if the tag is "Link:", but it has to be a URL, not
> > just a bare message-id that I have to cut and paste like it's the stone
> > age.
>
> 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?

-K