Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

[Rene Herman]

On 14-04-08 08:24, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:39:43 +0100 Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I have a related proposal: let us require all patches to be stamped
> > with Discordian *and* Eternal September dates.  In triplicate.  While
> > we are at it, why don't we introduce new mandatory headers like, say
> > it,
> >
> > X-checkpatch: {Yes,No}
> > X-checkpatch-why-not: <string>
> > X-pointless: <number from 1 to 69, going from "1: does something useful" all
> > the way to "68: aligns right ends of lines in comments">
> > X-arbitrary-rules-added-to-CodingStyle: <number> (should be present if
> > and only if X-pointless: 69 is present).
> >
> > Come to think of that, we clearly need a new file in Documentation/*,
> > documenting such headers.  Why don't we organize a subcommittee^Wnew maillist
> > devoted to that?  That would provide another entry route for contributors,
> > lowering the overall entry barriers even further...
>
> None of the above was particularly useful.

Does that mean you're not going to take patches that align the right end of 
lines in comments? :-(

Rene.
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