From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966521AbcAZPdJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:33:09 -0500 Received: from mga04.intel.com ([192.55.52.120]:35459 "EHLO mga04.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965321AbcAZPdG (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:33:06 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.22,350,1449561600"; d="scan'208";a="641668592" Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Add "B:" preferred bug reporting method To: Joe Perches , Jani Nikula , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1453799451-19300-1-git-send-email-jani.nikula@intel.com> <1453819327.28952.93.camel@perches.com> Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, Andrew Morton From: Dave Gordon Organization: Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd. - Co. Reg. #1134945 - Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ Message-ID: <56A791AF.9030804@intel.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:33:03 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1453819327.28952.93.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 :) .Dave.