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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


  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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