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

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rich,
as nobody replied to the mail, I am inclined to dismiss the proposal of ANN for 
now
Lars

> On 25 Apr 2019, at 16:59, Rich Persaud <persaur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 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
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