To me, subject tags are a partial (slightly annoying) solution to the problem. If there’s no better solution, then I suppose it could make things better, but it would likely require a lot of retraining of folks. I wonder how realistic that is.
> ...while preserving the ubiquity of email which is *very* important in the > Apache model, IMO. To be clear, I was not suggesting removing support for email clients. I was rather suggesting *additional* tools which could be used to improve the experience. > On Oct 20, 2017, at 11:50 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ...I’m wondering if it makes sense to take a step back and rethink email and >> communication. >> This feels like part of a bigger challenge... > > One of my favorite ways to make sense of busy mailing lists is to > require subject line [tags] for everything. > > Rich Bowen recently pointed me to OpenStack dev list which does > exactly that, > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-June/thread.html > > This paves the way for improved mail clients or plugins which can make > good use of that, without requiring complicated new tools and while > preserving the ubiquity of email which is *very* important in the > Apache model, IMO. > > One thing that remains is the need for people to quote in a sane way, > spending a big more energy on their side to save the energy of lots of > people reading the result. I understand some email clients are > terrible at that but I'm not sure if it's a valid excuse for our > frequent top-quoted messes. > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
