Re: "Link in bio" instead of Link:/Closes: trailer

[Bagas Sanjaya]

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!

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