Re: [PATCH, v3] wwwdocs: e-mail subject lines for contributions

[Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>]

Hello,

On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> > > The idea is that the [...] part is NOT part of the commit, only part of 
> > > the email.
> > 
> > I understand that, but the subject line of this thread says "e-mail 
> > subject lines", so I thought we were talking about, well, exactly that; 
> > and I see no value of these tags in e-mails either.
> 
> In email, they do carry information that is useful there, the distinction
> whether a patch has been committed already and doesn't need review from
> others, or whether it is a patch intended for patch review, or just a RFC
> patch that is not yet ready for review, but submitter is looking for some
> feedback.

For tags like [cmt] or [rfc] I don't have much gripe, though I do think 
that info could be given in the body, and that e.g. in e-mail archives 
(where the tags are not removed automatically) they carry the same value 
as in git log, namely zero.

But suggesting that using the subject line for tagging is recommended can 
lead to subjects like

 [PATCH][GCC][Foo][component] Fix foo component bootstrap failure

in an e-mail directed to gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org (from somewhen last year, 
where Foo/foo was an architecture; I'm really not trying to single out the 
author).  That is, _none_ of the four tags carried any informational 
content.


Ciao,
Michael.