On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 07:42:35PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 09:13:32PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > > I was scratching my itch whether common social media practices (such as that's > > being discussed here) can be applied to kernel development. > > The real problem is that someone's soecial media profile (whether it's > Linkedin, or Facebook, or Threads, or Twitter) is not a stable, fixed > resource. So at any time in the future, the bug report in the Social > media profile could get modified, or disappear when Elon Musk decides > to take a user's Twitter username[1] away so he can resell the highly > desireable account name to someone he likes better. The git log is > forever. So pointing to a transient resource from a permanent log is > a really, Really, REALLY bad idea. > > [1] https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/x-twitter-usernames-music-take-away-interview.html > > Common social media practices are often quite terrible, and this is a > great example about why they shouldn't be used for this purpose. The > bug report should be sent to a linux kernel mailing list, so everyone > can see it, and then they can use a lore.kernel.org URL as the stable > resource. > > If the bug report is in some other source where the people who run it > understand the importance of stable information at stable URL's --- > for example, bugzilla.kernel.org, bugzilla.redhat.com, > bugs.debian.org, etc. that's also fine. But a social media profile, > which can be modified at the owner's whim (either of the social media > account, or the social media comapny, or someone who has $44 billion > dollars to carelessly throw around)? That way lies madness. > > Just because something might "common social media pracitce", doesn't > mean that it's a good idea. In fact, some might argue that much of > what happens on social media has a negative value to society, but > that's a different debate.... Ted, thanks for the explanation! -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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