On 24/09/10 18:38, Jacob Helwig wrote: > Personally, I also prefer bottom-posting, but I think that if we're > top-posting at all, that we should be doing it all of the time.
I do prefer bottom-posting too. Otherwise I feel like on a US road :-) http://xkcd.com/781/ > I don't think that the distinction between "patch review threads", and > "discussion threads" is quite as clear as your summary would imply, > since I can see discussions being spawned from patch reviews (such as > this one). Where exactly does the line get drawn? As I see it, and as I usually do: * discussion threads don't contain patch, bottom posting is preferred so that we can read the thread a long time after and still understand all the context/discussion. I think we are used to read from top to bottom (maybe not in some Asian or Arabic countries, but at least in the Western world), so that feels more natural. * Patch reviews: Any important or general comments should be posted at the top as a preamble. The rest should be inlined. I think it is also good to elide some uninteresting parts of the patch to keep the e-mails short and focused. Replies to such review e-mail should be bottom-posted. The rationale is that it is important to keep the context (both the patch piece and the comments) geographically close so that it's easier to continue the discussion or to re-read it. I don't think top-posting review comments will be effective... > Top-posting all of the time would have fewer exceptional cases for > people to have to remember (IOW: No exceptions). If you're replying > inline, you did top-post saying "The rest of my replies are inline with > the quoted text.". With bottom-posting some of the time, would we > switch if a discussion results from a patch review? When would we > switch? If we don't, then we're no longer bottom-posting in discussion > threads. Just seems like too much for a new member (IE: Me) to pick up > from just lurking on the lists; it would seem like the "convention" is > that there isn't one. Yes, there is no real convention. It's not that important :) Still I prefer and will keep bottom-posting when I can :-) -- Brice Figureau My Blog: http://www.masterzen.fr/ -- 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.
