[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: put commit messages in *-commits subject lines?

[Eli Bendersky]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:37 PM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Tobias Grosser <tobias at grosser.es> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01/26/2013 12:15 AM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, this is done and seems to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> As far as Chris's request for getting "key directory" paths into the
>>>>> commit message, I thought about working on it, but in the end I'm not
>>>>> sure why we shouldn't just encourage people to self-tag their leading
>>>>> commit line with some sort of standard key ([MC], [Target/Mips],
>>>>> whatever).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Very nice.
>>>>
>>>> While at that, who can get rid of the [llvm],[cfe-commits], ... prefixes?
>>>> I remember we agreed they just cost screen real estate.
>>>
>>
>> Careful here, these may be used to set up filters in mail clients, and
>> an alternative has to be provided.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> For instance, I have a filter that sends all [compiler-rt] related
>> mail to its own folder, which is quite important for me.
>
> the [compiler-rt] prefix is for the specific repository, rather than
> the mailing list - that would remain (it's part of the svn mail
> sending process), but the mailing list prefix is a property of the
> mailing list software overall, which is what's going to (potentially)
> be removed.
>

OK, I see.

> That being said, even though I (& probably most gmail users) have
> mailing list rules setup based on list headers rather than subject
> prefixes, like you, I wouldn't be sure that everyone has this setup or
> that it's convenient for everyone to do so.
>
> I'd like this change, I'm just not sure how to evaluate whether it's
> correct (short of changing it seeing how many people complain/how many
> of them cannot be helped/fixed)

I guess that the need can be summarized to:

- If email comes from separate email addresses (or "to" separate
addresses), further specification in the subject is superfluous and
can be nuked.
- If email is otherwise indistinguishable but comes from different
sub-projects, some specification in the subject has to be retained to
allow effective mailbox management.

What am I missing?

Eli