From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
ksummit@lists.linux.dev, outreachy@lists.linux.dev,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KTODO automated TODO lists
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:01:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db623920-34db-46e3-a768-f9b8b36d3268@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <169818295461.20306.14022136719064683486@noble.neil.brown.name>
On 24/10/2023 23:29, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2023, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 23/10/2023 20:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:11:36 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yesterday someone on my lists just sent an email looking for kernel
>>>> tasks.
>>>
>>> Well here's a task: write a bot which follows the mailing lists and
>>> sends people nastygrams if one of their emails is more than 95%(?)
>>> quoted text.
>>>
>>> It's happening significantly more lately. Possibly because the gmail
>>> client helpfully hides quoted text.
>>
>> I would also point to reviewers and maintainers who give a Rb/Ack tag:
>> 1. somewhere at the top, without any footer like Best regards, and then
>> quote entire patch, so I don't know shall I look for more comments after
>> Rb/Ack?
>>
>> 2. quote entire email and then add Rb/Ack, so I need to figure out
>> whether there was something between the hundreds of lines of text or not.
>
> Here we all are, brilliantly talented computer programmers who spend
> our days making amazing fast digital devices do amazingly clever and
> subtle things, inventing time-saving tools and processing vast amounts
> of data without blinking, but for some reason we think the task of
> skipping over a few thousand lines that all start with '> " is too hard
> for us and that we should, in stead, complain to some other human to
> convince them to make our life easier for us.
>
> Does anyone else see the irony?
Neither my email client is able to skip the quoted text, nor
lore.kernel.org or Patchwork. Therefore in both cases - reading the
email with my current toolset or checking some older threads on
lore/Patchwork - I would have to do it manually. Quite a waste of time.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-25 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-19 4:11 KTODO automated TODO lists Dan Carpenter
2023-10-19 12:50 ` Linus Walleij
2023-10-19 13:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-10-19 15:43 ` Liam R. Howlett
2023-10-19 16:30 ` Bird, Tim
2023-10-19 17:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-10-19 17:37 ` Bird, Tim
2023-10-19 17:47 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-10-23 18:49 ` Andrew Morton
2023-10-23 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-10-23 19:00 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-10-23 19:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-10-23 19:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-10-23 21:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-10-23 21:44 ` Tony Luck
2023-10-23 22:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-10-23 19:41 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-10-24 4:58 ` Andrew Morton
2023-10-24 15:28 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-10-26 21:58 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-10-23 21:45 ` NeilBrown
2023-10-24 7:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-10-24 7:25 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-24 8:42 ` Jani Nikula
2023-10-24 8:52 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-24 12:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-10-24 13:12 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-24 15:53 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-10-24 21:29 ` NeilBrown
2023-10-24 22:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-10-25 3:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-10-25 23:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-10-25 6:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-10-25 21:14 ` NeilBrown
2023-10-25 22:00 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-10-26 4:29 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-10-26 6:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-10-25 7:01 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]
2023-10-25 11:45 ` James Bottomley
2023-10-25 16:40 ` Jani Nikula
2023-10-25 18:07 ` James Bottomley
2023-10-25 18:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-10-25 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-10-25 21:19 ` NeilBrown
2023-10-25 21:17 ` NeilBrown
2023-10-25 18:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2023-10-25 19:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-10-25 20:03 ` Alexandre Belloni
2023-10-25 21:38 ` NeilBrown
2023-10-23 23:38 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-10-24 0:07 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-10-24 2:16 ` Joe Perches
2023-12-11 18:47 ` Steven Rostedt
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