Re: cover letter not considered Fwd: [GIT PULL 0/7] KVM: s390: Fixes for 7.2

Hi Christian, sorry for the delay

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 06:42:10PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I am a bit puzzled. Looking at https://sashiko.dev/#/?list=org.kernel.vger.linux-s390
> I do see  1,2,3,4,5,6,7 but not 0 for the PULL request above
>  Clicking on on of those mails then also has the 0 mail so its there
> https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260727095720.9150-2-borntraeger%40linux.ibm.com
> 
> but during review this seems to have been lost. This is unfortunate as the cover letter might
> help to find the right tree and with 3 failed applies several already fixed
> things (in those 3 patches) are reported instead.

IIUC in the current code, cover letters are not considered patches in
the DB and therfore do not get forwarded to the reviewer processes.

I have been working on improving the concept of a "patch series summary" that
propagates a small snippet of "context" to all reviewer threads. Currently, the
individual worker threads only get a range from base..HEAD and use git log
--format=%s to get insight into other patches in a series.

So the cover letter never really makes it's way into the "working context" of a
single worker in isolation.

Is your concern not being able to quickly view the '0'-indexed mail? or that it
may help with review accuracy if it were to make it's way into the review
process?


Cheers,
-- 
Derek <[email protected]>