From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
        Kai =?utf-8?Q?Wasserb=C3=A4ch?= <kai@dev.carbon-project.org>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
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        dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, mptcp@lists.linux.dev,
        Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: process: allow Closes tags with links
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Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:19:40 -0600
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Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net> writes:

> +In the same category as linking web pages, a special tag is also used to close
> +issues but only when the mentioned ticketing system can do this operation
> +automatically::
> +
> +        Closes: https://example.com/issues/1234
> +
> +Please use this 'Closes:' tag only if it helps managing issues thanks to
> +automations. If not, pick the 'Link:' one.

So if there is a consensus for this, I can certainly apply the patch.

I do think, though, that if we accept this tag, we should ask that it
only be used for *public* trackers.  A bunch of tags referring to
internal trackers and such aren't going to be all that helpful.

jon