On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 18:27 -0700, Jacob Helwig wrote: > Actually, for me, it's harder to top-post, since my mail client is setup > to automatically put me just above my signature (below the quoted email) > when composing. ;-)
I feel the same. > If it's standard practice, because that's what we want, then I'll change > what I do. If it's standard practice because most people are using the > gmail web interface, and are lazy... ;-) So...in light of what appear > to be a number of ambiguities in our processes, as of late: Should I > actually change what I'm doing, or were you just trying to save me some > effort? (Top-posted, assuming the former.) I myself largely prefer bottom-posting for discussion thread like this one. But top-most make sense for patches, since you wan't your answer to be noticed at first glance (ie without to scroll page long). Of course code comments should be inlined in the patch. If I had to choose a convention: * discussion thread: bottom-post with proper off-context text elimination respecting attributions * patch code reviews: answer at top, code review inlined My 0.02$ -- Brice Figureau Follow the latest Puppet Community evolutions on www.planetpuppet.org! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
