messages to port-developers (Re: The way to fix ports/104560)

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at icir.org
Tue Jan 23 11:17:18 UTC 2007


Taking this message as chance to make a comment that i
wanted to make for a long time:

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:47:38PM +0200, Vasil Dimov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please take a look at ports/104560 (and also ports/105853 and
> ports/106120) and come to a consensus what is the right way to fix this
> issue.

it happens all the time (not only here i am afraid) that
messages related to bug reports are extremely cryptic as the
ones above.

May i suggest that either in the subject line or at least
in the body one puts a human-readable description

	(e.g. "fixes for memory leak on sysutils/memcheck")

rather than a machine-language one ("fix ports/104560")
of what the mail is about ?

A full URL in the body of the message would also be great.

Especially on a global list such as port-developers,
it is very useful that one can quickly identify things
he is interested in, and filter out the rest

	thanks
	luigi




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