note API change for tag macro hint.

[notmuch-wiki] / nmbug.mdwn

diff --git a/nmbug.mdwn b/nmbug.mdwn
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--- a/nmbug.mdwn
+++ b/nmbug.mdwn
@@ -110,8 +110,14 @@ Sometimes the process stalls, and patches get tagged:
 
     notmuch::moreinfo           waiting for feedback from patch proposer
                                 or others
-    notmuch::stale              The patch no longer applies to master (or in 
-                                rare cases, to release)                                                        
+    notmuch::stale              The patch no longer applies to master (or in
+                                rare cases, to release)
+
+Note that these tags typically apply to whole series of patches; it
+doesn't usually make sense to apply patches later in the series before
+earlier ones. So a patch may be tagged `moreinfo` or `stale` only
+because a predecessor patch is.
+
 ### Bug tracking tag
 
 So far we are just tagging certain messages as bug reports, meaning