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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Patch version changes in
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 17:30 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 2) Link to a previous version of patch series in the cover letter
> > 
> >    Lot of people provide already links in their cover letter. Many of
> > them
> >    unfortunately use lkml.org which is a pain, but it's better than
> >    nothing.
> > 
> >    Ideally we can bring people to use the MSG id based links because
> > they
> >    do not depend on any particular archive.
> > 
> >    That needs a bit more education. Proper documentation should solve
> > that
> >    over time. If people use lkml.org for the link until they figure
> > out
> >    what a message id is, fine.
> 
> This is the bit that I think is the problem.  However, if it's optional
> but recommended I'm happy ... drive by committers won't do it, we don't
> have to add it for them and likely if they were forced to do a V2 there
> wasn't much illuminating content in V1 because it's probably process or
> other trivial changes.

Yes. I'm not worried about those. It mostly matters for larger patch series.

Thanks,

	tglx