Email subject line formatting
David Holmes
david.holmes at oracle.com
Mon Apr 6 23:21:18 UTC 2020
Hi everyone,
Erik asked me to raise this here to see if anyone else is bothered by
this ...
When an integration email is sent the subject line of the RFR thread is
augmented with [integrated] and also adorned with "Re:" as if a reply to
the RFR thread e.g.
Re: [Integrated] [foreign-abi] RFR: Revert "JDK-8242127: reorganize
ABI-dependent layout constants"
My objection to this is that once the subject has been augmented with
[Integrated] it is not appropriate to treat that as a "reply" and use
the "Re:". If I see:
[Integrated] [foreign-abi] RFR: Revert "JDK-8242127: reorganize
ABI-dependent layout constants"
I know its a changeset notification email and I can ignore it. Just as I
can ignore:
git: openjdk/panama-foreign: foreign-jextract: 2 new changesets
or
hg: jdk/jdk: 8242217: Shenandoah: Enable GC mode to be
diagnostic/experimental and have a name
but when I see the "Re:" I think "oh someone is commenting on that push,
there must be an issue and I should read the email" - which is the case
with current hg notification emails!
This would be less of an issue if the sender of the integration email
was a bot account but it isn't, it is the committer.
So I'd like to suggest that the "Re:" be dropped from the subject line
of these automatically generated integration emails.
Cheers,
David
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