Commit mail subject lines [was: svn commit: r126493 - /apr/site/trunk/docs/download.html ...]

[Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com>]

Reid Spencer wrote:
> This is a bit of a silly request, but could we get the APR commits list
> to use the prefix "apr commits" instead of "svn commits" in the subject
> line? I'm on the mailing list for both Subversion and APR and I get
> confused every time APR sends me an "svn commit" because I think its for
> Subversion not APR.

Hmm.  My thought is that the prefix "svn commit " is redundant and should be 
dropped.  A subject starting with "r126493 - /apr/site/trunk/docs/download.html 
..." should be sufficiently obvious.  That change wouldn't in itself help you 
to distinguish between one project and another, but it would remove the "svn" 
prefix that partly confuses you, and you could filter them based on the sender 
and/or look at the subject line after the revision number.

- Julian

Re: Commit mail subject lines [was: svn commit: r126493 - /apr/site/trunk/docs/download.html ...]

[André Malo <nd...@perlig.de>]

* Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com> wrote:

> André Malo wrote:
> >>><ju...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >>>>Hmm.  My thought is that the prefix "svn commit " is redundant and
should
> >>>>be dropped.  A subject starting with "r126493 -
> 
> > I find the prefix is especially useful, when someone replies to such
> > mails to another mailinglist (like this thread).
> 
> Ah, but do you find the current prefix "svn commit r126493 - [paths...]"
more 
> useful than "r126493 - [paths...]"?  Why?

No. I find "Re: svn commit: ..." better than "Re: r12345 - ....", because I
know by looking at the subject, that the mail most likely refers to a svn
commit and not something else.

nd

Re: Commit mail subject lines [was: svn commit: r126493 - /apr/site/trunk/docs/download.html ...]

[Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com>]

André Malo wrote:
>>><ju...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>>>Hmm.  My thought is that the prefix "svn commit " is redundant and should
>>>>be dropped.  A subject starting with "r126493 -

> I find the prefix is especially useful, when someone replies to such
> mails to another mailinglist (like this thread).

Ah, but do you find the current prefix "svn commit r126493 - [paths...]" more 
useful than "r126493 - [paths...]"?  Why?

- Julian

Re: Commit mail subject lines [was: svn commit: r126493 - /apr/site/trunk/docs/download.html ...]

[André Malo <nd...@perlig.de>]

* Nick Kew <ni...@webthing.com> wrote:

> Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> 
> > <ju...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hmm.  My thought is that the prefix "svn commit " is redundant and
should
> >> be dropped.  A subject starting with "r126493 -
> > 
> > We always had the 'cvs commit' prefix.  I see no compelling reason to
> > change this.  -- justin
> 
> I do.  It becomes much harder to track which changes are of interest
> to me when I can't see any meaningful information in the subject line.
> It's the same problem as spam: the commits I want to look at are drowned
> in those I have no interest in (e.g. recently LDAP - glad to see it
> there, but I have nothing to contribute to that work).

I find the prefix is especially useful, when someone replies to such
mails to another mailinglist (like this thread).

nd

Re: Commit mail subject lines [was: svn commit: r126493 - /apr/site/trunk/docs/download.html ...]

[Nick Kew <ni...@webthing.com>]

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> <ju...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm.  My thought is that the prefix "svn commit " is redundant and should
>> be dropped.  A subject starting with "r126493 -
> 
> We always had the 'cvs commit' prefix.  I see no compelling reason to
> change this.  -- justin

I do.  It becomes much harder to track which changes are of interest
to me when I can't see any meaningful information in the subject line.
It's the same problem as spam: the commits I want to look at are drowned
in those I have no interest in (e.g. recently LDAP - glad to see it
there, but I have nothing to contribute to that work).

-- 
Nick Kew

Re: Commit mail subject lines [was: svn commit: r126493 - /apr/site/trunk/docs/download.html ...]

[Justin Erenkrantz <ju...@erenkrantz.com>]

--On Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:35 PM +0000 Julian Foad 
<ju...@btopenworld.com> wrote:

> Hmm.  My thought is that the prefix "svn commit " is redundant and should
> be dropped.  A subject starting with "r126493 -

We always had the 'cvs commit' prefix.  I see no compelling reason to 
change this.  -- justin