From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751858AbcAZUOL (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:14:11 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0066.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.66]:42883 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbcAZUOI (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:14:08 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 10,1,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:116:355:379:541:599:901:960:967:973:982:988:989:1260:1263:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2525:2553:2560:2563:2682:2685:2828:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3354:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3874:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4321:4362:5007:6261:8531:9010:9025:9388:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11783:11855:11914:12517:12519:12555:12740:13069:13072:13149:13230:13311:13357:13894:14659:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:3,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: lake65_23b43bd85750d X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2590 Message-ID: <1453839244.28952.98.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Add "B:" preferred bug reporting method From: Joe Perches To: Dave Gordon , Jani Nikula , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, Andrew Morton Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:14:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <56A791AF.9030804@intel.com> References: <1453799451-19300-1-git-send-email-jani.nikula@intel.com> <1453819327.28952.93.camel@perches.com> <56A791AF.9030804@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.3-1ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 15:33 +0000, Dave Gordon wrote: > On 26/01/16 14:42, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 11:10 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: > > > Different subsystems and drivers have different preferred ways of > > > receiving bug reports; mailing list or bugzillas at various > > > locations. Add "B:" entry for specifying the preference to guide bug > > > reporters at the right location. > > [] > > > v2: drop the B: entry for i915 due to bikeshedding, let's see if there's > > > a chance this B: entry sticks in general > > [] > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > > index 30aca4aa5467..c9da3a2af398 100644 > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > > @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ Descriptions of section entries: > > >    L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area > > >    W: Web-page with status/info > > >    Q: Patchwork web based patch tracking system site > > > + B: Preferred method for reporting bugs; bug tracking system site > > > +    or "List" for mailing list. > > > > I think that "List" is not a good idea. > > > > Intermixing mailing list email addresses and URLs seems > > odd and inconsistent. > > > > Maybe there could be something like the "T:" and "S:" > > entries where some additional qualifier is used for the > > specific type of bug reporting. > > Make it a proper URI, allowing mailto: > or http://bugzilla.org/i915/ or anything else that people > may come up with in future :) Thanks Dave.  That makes some sense. get_maintainer could then parse mailto: and http: schemes and could do the right thing.