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 <mail(a)colinfinck.de> 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 <pascaldragon(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:

>   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 <mail(a)colinfinck.de> 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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