linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: process: allow Closes tags with links

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Message-ID: <5b92ed08-5a0c-7fcd-a75d-61cee3f28192@tessares.net>
Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:28:58 +0100
From:   Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Kai Wasserbäch <kai@....carbon-project.org>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, mptcp@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: process: allow Closes tags with links

Hi Jon,

On 15/03/2023 19:19, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net> writes:
> 
>> +In the same category as linking web pages, a special tag is also used to close
>> +issues but only when the mentioned ticketing system can do this operation
>> +automatically::
>> +
>> +        Closes: https://example.com/issues/1234
>> +
>> +Please use this 'Closes:' tag only if it helps managing issues thanks to
>> +automations. If not, pick the 'Link:' one.
> 
> So if there is a consensus for this, I can certainly apply the patch.
> 
> I do think, though, that if we accept this tag, we should ask that it
> only be used for *public* trackers.  A bunch of tags referring to
> internal trackers and such aren't going to be all that helpful.

Thank you for this feedback!

I agree, this should only refer to public bug trackers otherwise the
link is useless for most people.

In fact, that's what I wrote in submitting-patches.rst but I just
noticed I forgot to duplicate this into 5.Posting.rst. I can do that in
a v2 if there is no objection to allow this "Closes:" tag.

Cheers,
Matt
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