From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9924632C93C for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761044209; cv=none; b=HOB2wKYjZl+AGQa8A9SJtM3vTy0bFuZ+qqxAcTJZYmt+ZFJXvjAmbeIkEafQJbxSlCHYts5Tg5cVw9aqcCrJPXWhfLHttqy8MMwgsxzJ0VImcvNG+cmb7c5CpC+EMj66abnvDh3XulD5OrJIkbWXWqNIs01Ex+J810tWTvQLk4E= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761044209; c=relaxed/simple; bh=nQAjVSXPZx5canQHvkWowycYDCtqTMmZbv7yKwH1h9s=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=UF7Jm+aH0p86ndSdH5/ztUeNXYUSl1jZTVTD5ciK2FXvV0vEbjjW0Eaz60X02xqG5t7FmCKjkLk15DMHI8V3Liop9vtFNRy/EYZBdYTkbJiGuh1gd/CaWLdRnJQZ94dJD7HBadJao5FYDUvKbxLPtZeGsRE3rOl0iCl67ndCssg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=dLRv6xYG; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="dLRv6xYG" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) id 38856C4CEFD; Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 14EB3C4CEF1; Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:56:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1761044209; bh=nQAjVSXPZx5canQHvkWowycYDCtqTMmZbv7yKwH1h9s=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=dLRv6xYGtpK49wpXWppiiUrntY+CkGTM11EILsamHMSQQFu6ppqRoGRYXK/oPtLLA sIl7uZFdoP3pPeEvkmXR2G1O8pdaOJnbKvCHQgMrIdU1hLC8Oy9UgC0cJLPjxLfdaA 8Ws8lej/v76XQSk4UjIQMp/blZQeYaeERSgQ2Oovv2IKcbvoFKfeosloAJ5KKQsF2t ovH0XoIoq8AMcZJFOvIWK2VaRaiyGQoVVwviAMpnuJwW8HJfcJo5W4hhHy++Ut89Yx iL8Rk5fAkiDVRmuGSmE8UdhN3ZYx03lQvFWZ9NBRkVxpHXVqIywB/06A6MkaIFwMMW r2m3VciwHcXrg== Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:56:45 +0100 From: Lee Jones To: Greg KH Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev , tools@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: b4: ty: User-flow regression Message-ID: <20251021105645.GE475031@google.com> References: <20251009151349.GB2890766@google.com> <20251009-remarkable-charming-pogona-fd7a8f@lemur> <20251010080324.GC2988639@google.com> <20251010-mauve-dolphin-of-apotheosis-a1cbdf@lemur> <20251010143452.GH2988639@google.com> <20251010-feathered-pastoral-woodpecker-de863d@lemur> <2025101155-coauthor-backboned-e90b@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: tools@linux.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2025101155-coauthor-backboned-e90b@gregkh> On Sat, 11 Oct 2025, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:37:22AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > Next question is -- have you recently stopped adding Link: tags to your > > > > commits? :) > > > > > > Oooo, yes! Yes, I have! > > > > > > Why would that make a difference? > > > > When patches have been altered by the maintainer, we can no longer match them > > by git-patch-id. > > Which is the primary reason to keep the Link: stuff. Many maintainers > manually change patches to fix up minor things all the time, and without > the Link: it's a major pain to find (the LF sponsored a whole project > just to do the backwards mapping for many years, but no one used it...) > > > In the past, when we found a Link: trailer, we could still > > match their provenance by message-id, but if that is gone, we can no longer > > fall back to that. I am working on making the "ty" mechanism being less > > dependent on that -- hopefully the master branch should become more useful to > > you again in the near future. > > message-id is important to track somehow, we need that link. It turns out that going back to manually thanking contributors is too much of a regression for me ATM. For now at least, against Linus' wishes (sadly), I'm putting Link:s back in. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯]