Re: asdf

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 12:04:14PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Can't be said enough: thanks for b4!

Glad to see so many people start to use it.

> I have two inquiries about b4 send:
> 
> (1) Currently the message id that is generated for each patch sent by b4
>     has the format:
> 
>     [date] - [branch name] - [version] - [patch number] - [random] @ kernel.org
> 
>     where [date] is fixed and is taken from the change-id of the series
>     as you mentioned in a fediverse thread.
> 
>     It would be nice if we could - potentially opt-in via a config opt -
>     set [date] to the date when the patch series was sent.

Sounds reasonable.
bugbot on

> (2) I couldn't find an option to tell b4 send to set In-Reply-To: to one
>     or more messages. That comes in handy when e.g., generating a patch
>     in reply to syzbot report.
> 
> Maybe that's something worth adding.

I worry that this can create really weird thread interactions. E.g. if you
have a bot report and it results in two different series being proposed:

original bot report
 \ 
  -- [PATCH] fixes one issue from the report
  \
 | -- [PATCH v2] fixes one issue from the report
 |
  -- [PATCH] fixes a different issue from the report
  \
   -- [PATCH v2] fixes a different issue from the report

This will confuse absolutely everyone, not just b4. :)
It's best to just use Link:, I think.

-K