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Message-ID: <fd643854-d687-1dda-f0ae-a6ef06432394@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 25 Mar 2023 11:22:56 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>,
        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>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, mptcp@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: process: allow Closes tags with links

On 3/25/23 01:52, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst
> index 7a670a075ab6..20f0b6b639b7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst
> @@ -217,6 +217,15 @@ latest public review posting of the patch; often this is automatically done
>  by tools like b4 or a git hook like the one described in
>  'Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst'.
>  
> +Similarly, there is also the "Closes:" tag that can be used to close issues
> +when the underlying public bug tracker can do this operation automatically.
> +For example::
> +
> +	Closes: https://example.com/issues/1234
> +
> +Private bug trackers and invalid URLs are forbidden. For other public bug
> +trackers not supporting automations, keep using the "Link:" tag instead.
> +
>  A third kind of tag is used to document who was involved in the development of
>  the patch. Each of these uses this format::
>  
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index 69ce64e03c70..759c99e34085 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -134,6 +134,15 @@ resources. In addition to giving a URL to a mailing list archive or bug,
>  summarize the relevant points of the discussion that led to the
>  patch as submitted.
>  
> +It might be interesting to use the 'Closes:' tag to close issues when the
> +underlying public bug tracker can do this operation automatically. For
> +example::
> +
> +	Closes: https://example.com/issues/1234
> +
> +Private bug trackers and invalid URLs are forbidden. For other public bug
> +trackers not supporting automations, keep using the "Link:" tag instead.
> +
>  If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using
>  ``git bisect``, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of
>  the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary.  Do not split the tag across multiple
> 

The doc LGTM, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>

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