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Re: [PATCH, v3] wwwdocs: e-mail subject lines for contributions
On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 06:20:20PM +0000, Michael Matz wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> > Well, I'd review a patch differently depending on whether or not it was
> > already committed, a patch requiring review or an RFC looking for more
> > general comments, so I *do* think such an email prefix is useful.
>
> As I said: a very good argument must be made; it might be that rfc falls
> into the useful-tag category.
Yes, "rfc" can be useful to know *before* reading the mail.
> > The 50 char limit seems to come from wanting git log --oneline to not wrap in
> > an 80 column terminal. Whilst laudable, I'm not sure that such a limit
> > doesn't become too restrictive and then lead to hard-to-understand summaries.
>
> In my experience hard-to-understand summaries are more related to people
> writing them than to length, IOW, I fear a larger limit like 72 characters
> won't help that.
Yup. If it helps, don't think of it as "summary", think of it as "title".
Segher