Re: [PATCH] docs: add submitting-pull-requests.rst

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, "Tobin C. Harding" <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 04:09:32PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, "Tobin C. Harding" <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >     Original email thread 
>> >
>> >         https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/14/184
>> 
>> Please use http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171114110500.GA21175@xxxxxxxxx so
>> people can find the messages using the message-id.
>
> How did you generate this URL? Is this the format that should be used
> whenever linking to LKML messages i.e when including links in mail being
> sent to LKML?

See https://lkml.kernel.org/. It's just a base URL + message-id of the
message. (In my MUA, I can just hit a few keys and get the URL stashed
to the clipboard.)

The message-id based URL lets people find the message using their MUA
instead of having to go to some horrendous web site. But it still lets
people who prefer web sites use them.

Moreover, if an archive goes down, this makes it possible to still find
the message.



BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center