Re: [Xen-devel] [VOTE] tagging for operational messages sent to xen-devel@ (was Re: Xen 4.13 Development Update)

[Rich Persaud <persaur@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Apr 25, 2019, at 12:36, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Alright,
> 
> there was a lengthy discussion on this topic on IRC - log attached. The 
> consensus appears to be to use Canonical messages with a CAPITALISED tag. 
> E.g. "[TAG] Xen 4.13 Development Update".
> 
> The options which seemed to have least objections are
> 1: [ANNOUNCE]
> 2: [OPERATIONS] 
> 3: [PROCESS]
> 
> And that we should use these for other messages/announcements related to the 
> operation of Xen Project Development.

On mobile devices, shorter subjects are better.  A [xen-devel] email already 
has one 11-character tag. Since tags are in CAPITALS, abbreviated tags = less 
SHOuting.

> [Diziet] Only because we copy everything from -announce to -devel.

Some mailing lists use [ANN] for announcements.  Email mirrored to xen-devel 
from -announce could prefix the [ANN] tag, which would not be used for 
non-mirrored email, since all announcements would be directed to -announce.

> [gwd] But in my mind, things like RM updates (which happen pretty regularly) 
> and say, Developer Summit announcements, are different things.

The messages which prompted this discussion were related to release management. 
 These were called RM in the IRC discussion, which suggests [RM] as a possible 
tag.  It's quick to type and non-distracting to read.  This would not preclude 
other tags for non [RM] messages.

Rich
_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel