Re: PSA: Do not use "Reported-By" without reporter's approval

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 15:30 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Hello, all:
> 
> It is common courtesy to include this tagline when submitting patches: 
> 
> Reported-By: J. Doe <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Please ask the reporter's permission before doing so (even if they'd 
> submitted a public bugzilla report or sent a report to the mailing 
> list).

I disagree with this.

If the report is public, and lists like vger are public,
then using a Reported-by: and/or a Link: are simply useful
history and tracking information.