linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: reporting-issues: make people CC the regressions list

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Message-ID: <YHBSHjzy2nP97Fb2@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Apr 2021 15:09:50 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: reporting-issues: make people CC the
 regressions list

On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 01:47:24PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Make people CC the recently created mailing list dedicated to Linux
> kernel regressions when reporting one. Some paragraphs had to be
> reshuffled and slightly rewritten during the process, as the text
> otherwise would have gotten unnecessarily hard to follow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

> ---
> v1->v2
> * drop the bits that a would help a automatic tracking solution
> 
> FWIW, a quick reminder about something I wrote in v1, but nobody said
> anything about it: now that we have a mailing list for regressions I was
> inclined to remove the "Make the report's subject start with
> '[REGRESSION]'" part from the text. But in the end I left it, to make it
> obvious on other lists that the mail is about a regression.
> Nevertheless, I'm still wondering if it should be toned down a bit, as
> it might be enough if the subject starts with "regression:" or contains
> the word somewhere.

Let's see if anyone notices about [REGRESSION] or not, it can evolve
over time :)

thanks,

greg k-h