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[209.85.128.175]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j13-20020a81764d000000b005abd2a8b9ccsm2745698ywk.126.2023.10.24.23.56.01 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:56:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-yw1-f175.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-5a7eef0b931so54241777b3.0; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:56:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a0d:e291:0:b0:5a7:fbd5:8c1 with SMTP id l139-20020a0de291000000b005a7fbd508c1mr14810093ywe.17.1698216961347; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:56:01 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <369bc919-1a1d-4f37-9cc9-742a86a41282@kadam.mountain> <20231023114949.34fc967988c354547f79c4e7@linux-foundation.org> <8ca50d4c-3c96-4efa-a111-fca04d580ab5@kernel.org> <169818295461.20306.14022136719064683486@noble.neil.brown.name> In-Reply-To: <169818295461.20306.14022136719064683486@noble.neil.brown.name> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 08:55:49 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: KTODO automated TODO lists To: NeilBrown Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Andrew Morton , Dan Carpenter , ksummit@lists.linux.dev, outreachy@lists.linux.dev, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Neil, On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 11:29=E2=80=AFPM NeilBrown 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 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 afte= r > > 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 no= t. > > 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 --=20 Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k= .org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. Bu= t when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like t= hat. -- Linus Torvalds