Re: [Ksummit-discuss] crediting bug reports and fixes folded into original patch

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 14:17 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:55:54AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Perhaps automate a mechanism to capture that information as
> > git notes for the patches when applied.
> 
> Git notes have a limited usefulness for this -- they are indeed part of 
> the repository, but they aren't replicated unless someone does a 
> --mirror clone (or specifically fetches refs/notes/*). If the goal is to 
> improve visibility for contributors, then putting this info into a git 
> note will hardly make more difference than providing a Link: that 
> someone has to follow to a list archival service.

Or it becomes standard to fetch the refs/notes/... at the pull time.

> I can offer the following proposal:
> 
> - kernel.org already monitors all mailing lists that are archived on 
>   lore.kernel.org for the purposes of pull request tracking 
>   (pr-tracker-bot).
> - in the near future, we will add a separate process that will 
>   auto-explode all pull requests into individual patches and add them
>   to a separate public-inbox archive (think of it as another 
>   transparency log, since pull requests are transient and opaque).
> 
> We can additionally:
> 
> - identify all Link: and Message-Id: entries in commit messages, 
>   retrieve the threads they refer to, and archive them as part of the 
>   same (or adjacent) transparency log.
> 
> This offers an improvement over the status quo, because if 
> lore.kernel.org becomes unavailable, someone would have to have access 
> to all backend archive repositories it is currently tracking in order to 
> be able to reconstitute relevant conversations -- whereas with this 
> change, it should be sufficient to just have the copy of the 
> transparency log to have a fully self-contained high-relevancy archive 
> of both individual commits and conversations that happened around them.

I think that would be great.  Thanks.

I think all the requests for additional -by: -from: signature/bylines
becoe unnecessary if and when this proposal is implemented.