What's missing from our changelogs [LWN.net]

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 25, 2013 12:29 UTC (Thu) by aliguori (guest, #30636)
In reply to: What's missing from our changelogs by nevets
Parent article: What's missing from our changelogs

I do the same thing but I do it in the form of a Message-id: tag. That way you don't have to worry about links breaking over time.

Here's an example:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fd1d9926e91f42...

Besides being a good way to associate a commit with a mail thread, it is useful for generating automatic "Thank you" notes when a patch is applied.

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What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 25, 2013 13:02 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link] (6 responses)

We use to use LKML-Reference: tags that just included the message-id, but Linus hated it:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/28/460

Which was changed to the link format of:

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<message-id>

That way we have a link to the message that you can easily find, and if you are worried about that link disappearing, you have the message-id in the link. The best of both worlds.

But you should know that Linus hates just having the message-id as a tag.

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 25, 2013 16:58 UTC (Thu) by aliguori (guest, #30636) [Link] (5 responses)

Fortunately Linus doesn't control QEMU development :-)

A message-id is infinitely more useful than a link. There is no programmatic way of getting a message-id from a link so you can't generate email responses without it.

People just need to learn how to use mid.gmane.org :-)

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 25, 2013 19:02 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (3 responses)

Or even better: desktop systems could somehow add message IDs to the list of MIME types and handlers they support. Then you could just click on them and this would automatically open the thread in your mail indexer of choice.

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 27, 2013 18:41 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

Is there a way to tell a Message-Id from an email address? How would you determine that some string is an ID without something like message-id: (like email:)?

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 27, 2013 22:59 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes I was assuming something like Message-ID://

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Aug 3, 2013 22:54 UTC (Sat) by mp (subscriber, #5615) [Link]

I guess you mean mid:.

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 26, 2013 3:02 UTC (Fri) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]

I don't see the problem with the way we do the links. The link includes the message id. You get the best of both worlds.