Re: Replacing Link trailers

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Mon, 2025-10-13 at 12:20 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 at 12:07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> > 
> > This was the *original* definition that I proposed, which was
> > vetoed by Linus because it didn't provide a clickable experience.
> 
> Yeah., I still don't believe that Message-ID is any better than a
> link.
> 
> And the only believable argument *for* this all is the "one-click
> experience".
> 
> Because I still believe that "if you use tools, then 'b4 dig' is
> better than *any* pointless tag that just is entirely redundant and
> only cuts down on the available information".

I think we could possibly get the best of both worlds.  Once b4 dig
works well enough, it should be possible to do that server side as well
as client side, so we could get lore to do the server side stuff and
have a lore link that produces the output taking a message-id as input
like the link: tags do now (say https://lore.kernel.org/dig/<msgid>)

That way the tooling that uses msgid would still work (with a bit of
tweaking) and there is a clickable link that hopefully provides more
useful information.

Regards,

James