Re: Replacing Link trailers

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:54:26 -0400
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> ---
> I actually think this debate should be split into two
> pieces:
> 
>    1. What completely automated thing do we need to help tools with
>       tracking.  I think the message-id header would do that
>    2. What mindful thing could maintainers add to a commit to give
>       useful background information?
> 
> I think a lot of people want the former but Linus is asking for the
> latter and Link: has previously tried to serve both purposes which lead
> to the current dispute. I'm hoping splitting the discussion will
> produce something better on both fronts.
> ---


As I just replied to Konstantin, I do 1 via my automated scripts that puts
the link into the tags section, and 2 by placing the link outside the tags
section as it is meaningful for humans to read.

I will note, that I do not add 2 when a good discussion happened during a
patch submission. I only add 2 when another discussion lead to the patch
creation. 1 is for seeing if a discussion happened during patch submission
or not.

-- Steve