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On Thu, 29 Jun 2023, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 08:25:00AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2023, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > As I mentioned before the number of resends of what are frequently very
> > > similar serieses (eg, two PMICs from the same vendor in flight at the
> > > same time) was causing me real issues with tags going AWOL and things
> > > getting lost in the noise.
> 
> > As much as I empathise with each of these points (I feel it too), the
> > alternative seems to be causing more issues for more people.  With that
> > in mind, I'm going to revert back to how we've been doing things for a
> > long time now.  Please try to Ack and forget.  If a contributor fails to
> > apply a previously issued tag, we'll have to bring that up at the time.
> 
> The thing that's causing a lot of the issues here is that you're only
> applying the serieses en masse, blocking things on getting absolutely
> everything lined up (including this time over a merge window).  I really
> don't understand why you feel you're forced to batch everything together
> like this.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]