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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	"ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
	<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] crediting bug reports and fixes folded into original patch
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:55:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c11134905f06185dda4e9125f2fb7fd30fff979.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <694039d6e386d999fd74d038cf2627f5b3b0ca71.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 05:58 -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> So there are two embedded questions here: firstly, should we be as
> wedded to clean history as we are, because showing the evolution would
> simply solve this?  Secondly, if we are agreed on clean history, how
> can we make engagement via email as important as engagement via commit
> for the community managers so the Link tag is enough?  I've got to say
> I think trying to add tags to recognize patch evolution is a mistake
> and we instead investigate one of the two proposals above.

I don't care that any trivial style notes I give to anyone
are tracked for posterity.

Who are these 'community managers' that use these?

Signatures are a mechanism for credit tracking isn't great.

One style that seems to have been generally accepted is for
patch revision change logs to be noted below a --- line.

Often that change log will shows various improvements made
to a patch and the people and reasoning that helped make
those improvements.

Perhaps automate a mechanism to capture that information as
git notes for the patches when applied.


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-02 23:43 [Ksummit-discuss] crediting bug reports and fixes folded into original patch Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-03  4:02 ` Dan Williams
2020-12-03  9:34   ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-03  9:36     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-12-03 10:40       ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-03 18:30         ` Greg KH
2020-12-03 19:04           ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-09  0:34           ` Kees Cook
2020-12-09  5:01             ` Joe Perches
2020-12-09  7:58               ` Dan Carpenter
2020-12-09  8:45                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-09  9:18                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-12-09  8:54                 ` Joe Perches
2020-12-09 10:30                   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-12-09 17:45                     ` Dan Williams
2020-12-03 10:33 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-12-03 13:41   ` Julia Lawall
2020-12-03 13:58 ` James Bottomley
2020-12-03 16:55   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-12-03 19:17     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-12-03 19:24       ` Joe Perches
2020-12-03 21:13       ` James Bottomley
2020-12-03 18:52   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-03 20:04     ` James Bottomley
2020-12-04  4:54 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o

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