From: Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:08:20 +0000 > The bot tries to take the "dumb" part out of your way, by letting > you know from the start which trees this applied/built on and what > dependencies it might have. It comes for free, why not use it? I do this already while I'm processing the -stable queue in patchwork and it automatically falls right out of the process I use to extract patches out of Linus's GIT tree. I manually pull the commit out of Linus's tree, verify that it is actually the commit I'm interested in, then I do two things: 1) I look at the exact tag that the commit landed in using "git describe --contains SHA1_ID" 2) I look at the exact tag that the commit the Fixes: tag points at landed using "git describe --contains SHA1_ID" I double check #2 to see for cases whether the Fixes: tag itself was backported to stable trees. I use these two tag values to organize the -stable queue into subdirectories. This guides my patch applying in order to minimize useless work. So I have to do all of this work anyways. Even if the bot provided these values, I would still double check them, every single one of them. Therefore, the net result from my perspective is that for most patches fixing bugs on this list, instead of N list postings, there will now be at least N * 2. Bots are starting to overwhelm actual content from human beings on this list, and I want to put my foot on the brake right now before it gets even more out of control. Thank you.