Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Time to call it quits for the maintainer summit?

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 at 01:28, Takashi Iwai <[email protected]> wrote:
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> So, a single direction cherry-pick solution doesn't suffice, and IMO,
> we need to have some reverse-mapping of the aliases.  This could be
> some external content or some other way.

No. Christ people - you're doing things wrong, and then to "fix" that
you're making things just worse.

The point of git is to be reliable and rock solid and have immutable
history, and that's more than some "feature" - that's not just a core
design it's what makes git good.

And your "two-way communication" is BROKEN. It cannot work. The only
way it works is if you maintain it externally and don't make it part
of any history at all - which is fine, but dammit, then it has
absolutely nothing to do with commit messages and should be seen as
some external hack and nothing else. And it damn well should not be
part of any "endorsed workflow" because it's a hack built up on a
hack, built to work around broken and bad workflows.

So no. The drm workflow is already questionable. Don't make it *worse*
by building your tower of shit un that base of garbage.

            Linus