From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-05-21T00:15:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: Subject of ruby-core ML article should include artile number

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:20 AM, SASADA Koichi <ko1@atdot.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I propose that subject of ruby-core mailing list articles should
> include artile number such as [ruby-core:12345].  It's is not for
> all of ML but only for ruby-core ML.  This mailing list is for ruby
> development.  Subject prefix helps us to specify the article.
>
> Pros.
>  - We can search ML article with Subject search.
>  - We can copy and paste article number easily to ChangeLog,
>    another post, IRC, and so on.
>
>  "Writing ChangeLog easily" is most strong point.
>
>
> Cons.
>  - Not simple.
>  - It is not convinient for the guys
>    who use legacy mailer which doesn't support references.
>
>
> I add a subject prefix locally, it is mostly convinient for me.  But
> if I reply it, it remains (see [ruby-core:16808]).
>

Good Idea Koichi,

I haven't seen a way to get the ruby-core:XYZ number of reference of
some mails (since I use GMail).

After I send my post here, I need to track down blade site [1] and
lookup for the number.

On another rant, it also hits me find tickets in rubyforge that only says:

see [ruby-core:12345] or [ruby-dev:888]

Is hard to use search functionality for ruby-core but is harder to
translate japanesse from ruby-dev to see what the ticket is actually
reporting :-P

That also lowers the rubyforge search functionality to zero: you can't
use it to find tickets since the contents of the bugs are empty.

[1] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-core/index.shtml

Ok, just my 2 cents.

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