From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC] Stopping those fat "What's cooking in git.git" threads Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080720205125.GP10347@genesis.frugalware.org> <7vsku44679.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Miklos Vajna , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 20 23:39:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KKgcZ-0001hu-23 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:39:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751417AbYGTViM (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:38:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751466AbYGTViM (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:38:12 -0400 Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.180]:44549 "EHLO ik-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750870AbYGTViL (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:38:11 -0400 Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c28so782904ika.5 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:38:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; bh=DG64o1yMn+GjqgDU2NXkdBiaXp8m2EiZWK00Dv9YZHQ=; b=taPvA/rt0jDyG9O3RklH89MGoeQ+xaQWr3d90urZWxuJXIRPrMPxIm/k5hrSms/6DK BN3OlDeSgXA38LqzT4Js144AJm2zwO9tGnkwgq0nAlRgb91XOOvPz19dK46Gd+XaiuYA kblhBZiL+nzXh0L1Lgzwe/gdeJtscaqtroOf4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; b=HrQr6oPNs/4RKbWORjJckxV9w8u9zWSV7+XPIU+911v6ehglmeRn4K5hf19otOTFac noy81ohaigNlTKDgG1DE1KdYmYT8qyyDbWlPM0zlnpbcZSgIvOSwr8oGhB6Cf5xtq1Ld WsAVvauE88ons+pIth+TPBfr4jw0H/5a4l/Z0= Received: by 10.210.72.14 with SMTP id u14mr2555000eba.113.1216589885033; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ( [83.8.215.213]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b36sm6321694ika.5.2008.07.20.14.38.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m6KLc1ra009572; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:38:02 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id m6KLbwxd009569; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:37:58 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <7vsku44679.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > Miklos Vajna 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 break it from time to time (on major release perhaps?). > or perhaps add "(volume 1.6.0, issue 28)" at the end of the Subject. Very good idea. > But I think it is a good idea to change the subject when responding to one > part of the message to say which topic your response is about. > > I do not know if stripping "In-reply-to" is a great idea, though. They > are responses, aren't they? The problem with above is if you are replying to many points simultaneously. I think however that patches should rather start a new thread. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git