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

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 02:54:05PM +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> 
> > I've not seen any follow-up to this version.  Should we go ahead and adopt
> > this?
> 
> Can we please go with 'committed' (lowercase) rather than all-caps COMMITTED?
> Spelling this with all-caps seems like a recent thing on gcc-patches, before
> everyone used the lowercase version, which makes more sense (no need to shout
> about the thing that didn't need any discussion before applying the patch).

Lower case certainly makes more sense.

None of this are *rules*.  We should not pretend they are.  An email
subject should be useful to what the receivers of that email use it for:
see if it very interesting to them, see if it probably not interesting
to them: that's the "smth: " at the start, and the PR number at the end,
and of course the actual subject itself, so we should not put in too
much fluff in the subject, there needs to be room left (in the less than
fifty chars total) for an actual subject :-)

(The example in the patch does not capitalise the subject line, btw.
It should.)


Segher