Re: Patch abstracts in the Commitfest app

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 03:36:43PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 12 Nov 2021, at 15:24, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 01:51:28PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> >> While reading through and working with the hundreds of patches in the CF app a
> >> small feature/process request struck me: it would be really helpful if the
> >> patch had a brief abstract outlining what it aims to add or fix (or summary,
> >> description or something else; not sure what to call it). Basically a
> >> two-sentence or so version of the email posting the patch to -hackers.
> >
> > This seems fine ; that purpose is partially served (and duplicated) by the
> > patch commit messages (if used).
>
> That's the problem, many patches are in diff format and don't have commit
> messages at all. There are also many entries with patchsets containing
> multiple patches and thus commitmessages but the app will only link to one.

Probably encouraging to use cover letters, generated for such patch
series and linked by the CF app, would be a good idea?