On Thu, 2018-04-12 at 14:08 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:01:37AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-04-12 at 13:50 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:35:21AM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote: > > > > Is there a better or recommended way to reference posts on LKML in > > > > commit > > > > messages? (I do like the idea of linking to previous discussions, > > > > results, > > > > ...) > > > > > > Yes: > > > > > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/$MSGID > > > > > > that has the added benefit that it immediately includes the msg-id, so > > > even if you don't have tubes, you can search for it in your local > > > mailboxes. > > > > > > Also, since we (kernel.org) control the redirection (currently > > > marc.info) we can always point it to a life archive. > > > > Message IDs are not useful unless you subscribe and > > keep your emails. > > I happen to do so..
As do I for mailing list threads I reply to, but keeping all email threads locally is not not practicable on limited storage systems. > > It'd be _much_ nicer if vger.kernel.org stored every email > > it sent and had a search mechanism available rather than > > relying on external systems. > > People are looking at that afaik. Looking and doing are unfortunately different. Back when gmane died a couple years ago, I made the same suggestion to webmas...@kernel.org, postmas...@kernel.org and cc'd lkml https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/3/484 Never heard back. Maybe it's the proper time now to revisit this.
