Re: [PATCH] doc: process: Add "Root-caused-by" and "Suggested-by"

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Feb 22 2018 - 12:40:32 EST


On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:37:50 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As recently pointed out by Linus, "Root-caused-by" is a good tag to include
> since it can indicate significantly more work than "just" a Reported-by.
> This adds it and "Suggested-by" (which was also missing) to the documented
> list of tags. Additionally updates checkpatch.pl to match the process docs.

So I'm not really opposed to this, but I do wonder if we really need to
make a catalog of all the tags that might appear. A quick grep turns up
stuff like:

Niced-by
Based-on-a-patch-by
Debugged-by
Requested-by
Despised-by
Improvements-by
Tracked-by
Analyzed-by
Bisected-by
Okay-ished-by
\o/-by
Pointed-at-by
Brown-paper-bag-to-be-worn-by
Not-longer-ranted-at-by
Rightfully-ranted-at-by
Helped-by
Architected-by
Also-posted-by
Complained-about-by
Mehed-by
Reminded-by
Actually-written-by
Generated-by
Historical-research-by

Some of these are arguably more useful than others, but I'm not sure we
want to bother documenting even an often-used subset of them.

That said, we can add this one; I'll take the patch if I get an ack from
Joe.

jon