linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

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Message-ID: <20200713114321.783f0ae6@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:43:21 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, f4bug@...at.org, cyphar@...har.com,
        davej@...emonkey.org.uk, geert+renesas@...der.be,
        ribalda@...nel.org, luis.f.correia@...il.com,
        paulburton@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 07:51:27 +0200
"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de> wrote:

>  N: Derrick J. Brashear
>  E: shadow@...entia.org
> -W: http://www.dementia.org/~shadow
> +W: https://www.dementia.org/~shadow

So while I do understand what you're trying to do, HTTPSifying something
that has become a spam site doesn't do any good to anybody.  If you
*really* want to improve this file, dealing with this sort of issue would
be a much more useful contribution.  

I agree that fixing the links in general is a mildly useful thing to do.
But this kind of mindless replacement is taking a fair amount of my time,
and I just can't bring myself to apply patches that do something like
this.  Please, slow down a bit and think about how to actually improve
things rather than polishing unseemly items like the above.

Thanks,

jon