Re: [patch] gdb/CONTRIBUTE update

Jan Kratochvil
2013-02-26T13:12:33Z

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:16:38 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 02/26/2013 09:38 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > With a reply mail users (reviewers) which use sorting of mail folder by
> > threads (in Mutt 'o' 't') get the PING mail put under the original mail which
> > is far in the past and the PING mail gets hidden+forgotten again due to it.
> >
> > This even is not an idea of mine, it was concluded on some GNU Tools Cauldron.
>
> Do you like it? I don't.

I do.

> Interesting. I had seen some pings like that on the gcc list, but I never
> understood why people preferred them that way.

The discussion at Cauldron was primarily for GCC.

> I'm currently using Thunderbird, and it sorts threads by most recent reply,
> not by original post date

I do not see such option in Mutt. Mutt could be sure extended but as I can
imagine it is also not perfect as old but still discussed threads clutter new
posts. Besides that there are other mailers like VM/Gnus which also may not
have thre thread-by-most-recent-reply sorting, not sure.

> A separate email with an url means more work for me, as I then have to go
> look up the thread in Thunderbird that corresponds to that url,

This is why I started to include also Message-IDs besides the URLs. Posting
just the Message-IDs is unfortunately insufficient.

Looking up the URL from mailer/Mutt is also a pain, I wanted to code some
script for Message-ID -> URL mapping but as sourceware server should be
replaced ASAP which will replace MHonArc by PiperMail I have not yet coded it;
unfortunately the ASAP replace takes already some years.

Unfortunately whatever method we find out it always is a pain, the reviewing
process should be supported by projects like Gerrit. Until that is
tried/established the goal is just to find the least pain.

Jan