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From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Stopping those fat "What's cooking in git.git" threads
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:58:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080720205852.GA5950@leksak.fem-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080720205125.GP10347@genesis.frugalware.org>

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Hi,

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> I think it's just hard to follow the discussion as the subject is
> usually not changed, so for example when the subject contains "merge", I
> carefully read that mail, but I can easily miss such a mail if it's
> still "What's cooking in".

I agree that changing a subject (with "(was: <oldsubject>)") is nicer to
find specific mails later.

> So here is what I thought about: What about if everyone (except Junio,
> of course) would change the subject _and_ remove the In-Reply-To: header
> when replying to those mails?

"Everyone should" bla usually does not work in open communities.

And why not vice versa?
A new "What's cooking in " mail with new cookings could start a new
thread instead of replying to old "What's cooking in" mails...

> If those large threads just annoys a few people and most people are
> happy with the current situation then sorry for the noise.

Hm, I don't really care.

Mutt is able to link and break threads with

	#       break-thread         break the thread in two
	&        link-threads         link tagged message to the current one

so I am able to design the threads as I like it ;)
(And I am also able to change subjects as I like, so I don't have a
problem.)

Regards,
  Stephan

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-20 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-20 20:51 [RFC] Stopping those fat "What's cooking in git.git" threads Miklos Vajna
2008-07-20 20:58 ` Stephan Beyer [this message]
2008-07-20 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 21:21   ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-20 21:38   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-20 21:46     ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-20 21:48   ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-20 22:50   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-20 23:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 23:19       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-21  4:24         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21  5:27   ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-07-21 10:19     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-21  6:33   ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-21 10:21     ` Johannes Schindelin

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