Re: KTODO automated TODO lists

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Neil,

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 11:29 PM NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2023, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 23/10/2023 20:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:11:36 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >> Yesterday someone on my lists just sent an email looking for kernel
> > >> tasks.
> > >
> > > Well here's a task: write a bot which follows the mailing lists and
> > > sends people nastygrams if one of their emails is more than 95%(?)
> > > quoted text.
> > >
> > > It's happening significantly more lately.  Possibly because the gmail
> > > client helpfully hides quoted text.
> >
> > I would also point to reviewers and maintainers who give a Rb/Ack tag:
> > 1. somewhere at the top, without any footer like Best regards, and then
> > quote entire patch, so I don't know shall I look for more comments after
> > Rb/Ack?
> >
> > 2. quote entire email and then add Rb/Ack, so I need to figure out
> > whether there was something between the hundreds of lines of text or not.
>
> Here we all are, brilliantly talented computer programmers who spend
> our days making amazing fast digital devices do amazingly clever and
> subtle things, inventing time-saving tools and processing vast amounts
> of data without blinking, but for some reason we think the task of
> skipping over a few thousand lines that all start with '> " is too hard
> for us and that we should, in stead, complain to some other human to
> convince them to make our life easier for us.
>
> Does anyone else see the irony?

Please compare the numbers:
  1. 1 sender removes irrelevant parts,
  2. N receivers skip irrelevant parts.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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