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docs: clarify rules wrt tagging other people
authorThorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:30:10 +0000 (15:30 +0100)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:48:18 +0000 (16:48 -0600)
commit4e6b7141d1696247c42dd2d94a06f49211b42727
tree2796e6ab99394c3954a03313b101e67303776742
parentfba374f3285539d36ebef568afa102a28f7a6a95
docs: clarify rules wrt tagging other people

Point out that explicit permission is usually needed to tag other people
in changes, but mention that implicit permission can be sufficient in
certain cases. This fixes slight inconsistencies between Reported-by:
and Suggested-by: and makes the usage more intuitive.

While at it, explicitly mention the dangers of our bugzilla instance, as
it makes it easy to forget that email addresses visible there are only
shown to logged-in users.

The latter is not a theoretical issue, as one maintainer mentioned that
his employer received a EU GDPR (general data protection regulation)
complaint after exposing a email address used in bugzilla through a tag
in a patch description.

Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/588cf2763baa8fea1f4825f4eaa7023fe88bb6c1.1738852082.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst