Re: [PATCH] Documentation: insist on the plain-text requirement for security reports

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Mon Dec 22 2025 - 17:32:16 EST


Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 03:17:41PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> As the trend of AI-generated reports is growing, the trend of unreadable
>> reports in gimmicky formats is following, and we cannot request that
>> developers rely on online viewers to be able to read a security report
>> full for formatting tags. Let's just insist on the plain text requirement
>> a bit more.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst | 6 +++++-
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Looks good to me! Given the number of non-plain-text emails with binary
> attachments we still get there, it's obvious not many people seem to
> read this file, but it can't hurt! :)
>
> I'll queue this up if Jon doesn't, after -rc1 is out. If he wants to
> take it, here's my:
>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I grabbed it, thanks.

jon