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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Stopping those fat "What's cooking in git.git" threads
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:27:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48841E28.9050903@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsku44679.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:
> 
>> 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?
>>
>> If those large threads just annoys a few people and most people are
>> happy with the current situation then sorry for the noise.
> 
> I could make "What's cooking" not a follow-up to the previous issue, or
> perhaps add "(volume 1.6.0, issue 28)" at the end of the Subject.
> 

I would very much prefer that (both of them, really). Thunderbird's
threading is not so advanced as mutt's, so I can't break threads so easily.

The most annoying part is that the timebased auto-delete from thunderbird
means I get a new thread spawning in the middle of an old partially deleted
one. It can be very confusing.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-21  5:29 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
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 [this message]
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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