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Message-ID: <7b7287463e830fa8d981dc440f8165622cbc628e.camel@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 12:45:06 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PSA: Do not use "Reported-By" without reporter's approval
On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 15:30 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Hello, all:
>
> It is common courtesy to include this tagline when submitting patches:
>
> Reported-By: J. Doe <jdoe@...mple.com>
>
> Please ask the reporter's permission before doing so (even if they'd
> submitted a public bugzilla report or sent a report to the mailing
> list).
I disagree with this.
If the report is public, and lists like vger are public,
then using a Reported-by: and/or a Link: are simply useful
history and tracking information.
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