X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=nmbug.mdwn;h=b550f028ecf757db56498da3f60b989ac17c8126;hb=6f9773b3ae8236420aa281befba97389e000c04a;hp=c4626f23b0704049369e33b656ba47f462b038ef;hpb=0c70e3a0d6ad7bbb478f401b621b4f0d5ab83721;p=notmuch-wiki

diff --git a/nmbug.mdwn b/nmbug.mdwn
index c4626f2..b550f02 100644
--- a/nmbug.mdwn
+++ b/nmbug.mdwn
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ Initially any patch should be tagged:
 
     notmuch::patch
 
-Patches that are for discussion, rather than proposed for master should be tagged:
+Patches that are for discussion, rather than proposed for master
+should also be tagged:
 
     notmuch::wip                is "work in progress", posted for review or comment.
 
@@ -109,8 +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
@@ -148,6 +155,9 @@ search is:
 
     tag:notmuch::reviewed and not tag:notmuch::pushed
 
+See the [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/status]] page for more
+example searches.
+
 ## Design notes
 
 ### Disk format