Truncating ros-diffs subject lines

[Colin Finck]

Hi everybody,

Looking at 
http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-diffs/2010-August/038197.html and 
the same message in Thunderbird, I now see a need to automatically 
truncate all subject lines in ros-diffs' mails to 200 characters. I 
don't think that anybody reads the full commit messages through subject 
lines, so 200 characters should be enough to identify a commit easily.

If there are no objections, I'll try to change this in the next few days.

Cheers,

Colin

[James Tabor]

Hi!
I believe gmail does the same too.

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Colin Finck [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Looking at
> http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-diffs/2010-August/038197.html and the
> same message in Thunderbird, I now see a need to automatically truncate all
> subject lines in ros-diffs' mails to 200 characters. I don't think that
> anybody reads the full commit messages through subject lines, so 200
> characters should be enough to identify a commit easily.
>
> If there are no objections, I'll try to change this in the next few days.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin

[Sven Barth]

On 07.08.2010 14:24, Colin Finck wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Looking at
> http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-diffs/2010-August/038197.html and
> the same message in Thunderbird, I now see a need to automatically
> truncate all subject lines in ros-diffs' mails to 200 characters. I
> don't think that anybody reads the full commit messages through subject
> lines, so 200 characters should be enough to identify a commit easily.
>
> If there are no objections, I'll try to change this in the next few days.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin

Oh... I didn't see that someone already raised that topic :D

I'd appreciate it, because I weren't able to view the message Timo wrote 
without clicking "reply" so that I could see the quoted message.

Regards,
Sven

[ShadowFlare]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Sven Barth [e-mail]:
> On 07.08.2010 14:24, Colin Finck wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Looking at
> > http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-diffs/2010-August/038197.html and
> > the same message in Thunderbird, I now see a need to automatically
> > truncate all subject lines in ros-diffs' mails to 200 characters. I
> > don't think that anybody reads the full commit messages through subject
> > lines, so 200 characters should be enough to identify a commit easily.
> >
> > If there are no objections, I'll try to change this in the next few days.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Colin
>
> Oh... I didn't see that someone already raised that topic :D
>
> I'd appreciate it, because I weren't able to view the message Timo wrote
> without clicking "reply" so that I could see the quoted message.
>
> Regards,
> Sven

What some systems do is just take the first line of the commit message as
the subject.  If the first line is just a brief summary and the lengthy
explanation follows on another line, this works well.

-ShadowFlare

[Colin Finck]

For your information, a maximum subject length of 200 characters has 
been enabled as of today.

Cheers,

Colin

Colin Finck [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Looking at
> http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-diffs/2010-August/038197.html and
> the same message in Thunderbird, I now see a need to automatically
> truncate all subject lines in ros-diffs' mails to 200 characters. I
> don't think that anybody reads the full commit messages through subject
> lines, so 200 characters should be enough to identify a commit easily.
>
> If there are no objections, I'll try to change this in the next few days.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin
>
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