Re: Snipping irrelevant text from a discussion (was: "RE: [PATCH 15/16] OMAP3: PM: VP force update method of voltage scaling")

Tony Lindgren
2010-03-09T01:41:20Z

* Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> [100305 13:15]:
> Hey Sergio,
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Aguirre, Sergio <saaguirre@ti.com> wrote:
> > Hey!
> >
> > You guys take a "chill pill", ok? :) Let's not start shouting at people and point fingers.
>
> I'm not really angry, and I'm not blaming Thara either. I just tried
> to do some constructive criticism that was apparently not accepted,
> and I decided not to push it any further.

I (and many others I've spoken with) totally agree with your
comments. We should follow the usual mailing list standards, and
keep the messages readable. Until somebody comes up with a better
method for coordinating development online, that's all we have :)

After a quick search for "mailing list netiquette" I cam up with
the following links:

http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette

We can add that to some of the wiki pages so people can start
following the "proper" standards. Anybody got better links?

> > My 2 cents is that, usually, when discussion starts about a topic, or a
> > specific parts of code, you should remove irrelevant text, and substitute
> > by a "<snip>" line, just to give reference that some irrelevant text used to
> > be there... so if you're interested, just jump to the mailing list archive, and look it out for yourself.
>
> Indeed, specially when dealing with a heated argument, it's sometimes
> important to specify where you have snipped text. Although I think
> most of the time that's not needed, a "snip" comment is preferable to
> dozes or hundreds of extra lines.
>
> > Also, this is completely off topic, and has nothing to do with the original patch subject. Therefore a proper subject rename must happen.
>
> Right.
>
> > If you want to take this topic further, please figure it out between you two
> > And, if necessary, the list maintainer, allright?
>
> Yeah, that's something for Tony to decide, but I didn't think it was a
> good idea to push for it right now.

Yeah.. Letting people know about the mailing list standards is
pretty regular topic on almost all mailing lists. Once we have
the wikipage links figured out, let's just start pointing people
to those.

Regards,

Tony