From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>, "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] crediting bug reports and fixes folded into original patch Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:24:43 -0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <46efd4f2168b58c0da45c08b120a1b3deef9e169.camel@perches.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20201203191731.bpzvwqfldhcjhzfy@chatter.i7.local> On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 14:17 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:55:54AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > Perhaps automate a mechanism to capture that information as > > git notes for the patches when applied. > > Git notes have a limited usefulness for this -- they are indeed part of > the repository, but they aren't replicated unless someone does a > --mirror clone (or specifically fetches refs/notes/*). If the goal is to > improve visibility for contributors, then putting this info into a git > note will hardly make more difference than providing a Link: that > someone has to follow to a list archival service. Or it becomes standard to fetch the refs/notes/... at the pull time. > I can offer the following proposal: > > - kernel.org already monitors all mailing lists that are archived on > lore.kernel.org for the purposes of pull request tracking > (pr-tracker-bot). > - in the near future, we will add a separate process that will > auto-explode all pull requests into individual patches and add them > to a separate public-inbox archive (think of it as another > transparency log, since pull requests are transient and opaque). > > We can additionally: > > - identify all Link: and Message-Id: entries in commit messages, > retrieve the threads they refer to, and archive them as part of the > same (or adjacent) transparency log. > > This offers an improvement over the status quo, because if > lore.kernel.org becomes unavailable, someone would have to have access > to all backend archive repositories it is currently tracking in order to > be able to reconstitute relevant conversations -- whereas with this > change, it should be sufficient to just have the copy of the > transparency log to have a fully self-contained high-relevancy archive > of both individual commits and conversations that happened around them. I think that would be great. Thanks. I think all the requests for additional -by: -from: signature/bylines becoe unnecessary if and when this proposal is implemented. _______________________________________________ Ksummit-discuss mailing list Ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummit-discuss
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 19:24 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2020-12-02 23:43 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 2020-12-03 19:17 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev 2020-12-03 19:24 ` Joe Perches [this message] 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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