FYI: Why people are using #hashtags in yocto email subjects.

FYI: Why people are using #hashtags in yocto email subjects.

[Randy MacLeod]

FYI:

I don't know if I missed the memo/tweet about the email archive feature
but I just noticed that the new archive site will index emails
by hashtag:

    https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto

    https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/hashtags

I thought it was an annoying new behaviour coming from Twitter users
but now I understand why there are hashtags on my lawn^Hsubject lines.

;-)

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# Randy MacLeod
# Wind River Linux

Re: [yocto] FYI: Why people are using #hashtags in yocto email subjects.

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

I doubt people that actually send emails to the list use #hashtags.

But the new list server provides this posting feature for anyone to address 
the list and requests poster to add #hashtags - very annoying, indeed:

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/post

-- 
Denys


On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 03:18:34PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> FYI:
> 
> I don't know if I missed the memo/tweet about the email archive feature
> but I just noticed that the new archive site will index emails
> by hashtag:
> 
>    https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto
> 
>    https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/hashtags
> 
> I thought it was an annoying new behaviour coming from Twitter users
> but now I understand why there are hashtags on my lawn^Hsubject lines.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> -- 
> # Randy MacLeod
> # Wind River Linux

> 

Re: [yocto] FYI: Why people are using #hashtags in yocto email subjects.

[Nicolas Dechesne]

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On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:36 PM Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org> wrote:

> I doubt people that actually send emails to the list use #hashtags.
>
> But the new list server provides this posting feature for anyone to
> address
> the list and requests poster to add #hashtags - very annoying, indeed:
>
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/post


there is that. And looking at the history on the server, most of the
existing tags came from the web. But a hashtag is created automatically
when using '#' in the email subject. that's how #define was created:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/message/48686

and this email created #hashtags ;-)

I haven't found a way to disable it.. from what I can see we can
1. force every message to have at least one hashtag...
2. bounce message with a new hashtag in $subject
3. remove new hashtag when used in $subject

I think we will need to do some tests to see what #3 does.. But in any
case, I don't think we can prevent users from creating hashtags from the
web..

Is that causing any issues with patches workflow?


>
> --
> Denys
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 03:18:34PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> > FYI:
> >
> > I don't know if I missed the memo/tweet about the email archive feature
> > but I just noticed that the new archive site will index emails
> > by hashtag:
> >
> >    https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto
> >
> >    https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/hashtags
> >
> > I thought it was an annoying new behaviour coming from Twitter users
> > but now I understand why there are hashtags on my lawn^Hsubject lines.
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > --
> > # Randy MacLeod
> > # Wind River Linux
>
> >
>
> 
>

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Re: [yocto] FYI: Why people are using #hashtags in yocto email subjects.

[Randy MacLeod]

On 2020-04-17 4:09 a.m., Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:36 PM Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org 
> <mailto:denis@denix.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I doubt people that actually send emails to the list use #hashtags.
> 
>     But the new list server provides this posting feature for anyone to
>     address
>     the list and requests poster to add #hashtags - very annoying, indeed:
> 
>     https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/post
> 
> 
> there is that. And looking at the history on the server, most of the 
> existing tags came from the web. But a hashtag is created automatically 
> when using '#' in the email subject. that's how #define was created:
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/message/48686
> 
> and this email created #hashtags ;-)
> 
> I haven't found a way to disable it.. from what I can see we can
> 1. force every message to have at least one hashtag...
> 2. bounce message with a new hashtag in $subject
> 3. remove new hashtag when used in $subject

I don't think we need to change anything.
I found it annoying at first because I didn't know about the
archive tagging feature.
> 
> I think we will need to do some tests to see what #3 does.. But in any 
> case, I don't think we can prevent users from creating hashtags from the 
> web..
> 
> Is that causing any issues with patches workflow?

I am not aware of any workflow problems.

../Randy
> 
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Denys
> 
> 
>     On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 03:18:34PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
>      > FYI:
>      >
>      > I don't know if I missed the memo/tweet about the email archive
>     feature
>      > but I just noticed that the new archive site will index emails
>      > by hashtag:
>      >
>      > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto
>      >
>      > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/hashtags
>      >
>      > I thought it was an annoying new behaviour coming from Twitter users
>      > but now I understand why there are hashtags on my lawn^Hsubject
>     lines.
>      >
>      > ;-)
>      >
>      > --
>      > # Randy MacLeod
>      > # Wind River Linux
> 
>      >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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# Randy MacLeod
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