Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-26 Thread Martin Jambor
Hi, On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:12:17PM -0800, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: In this day and age of rich-text capable mailers, restricting postings to be text-only seems quaint and antiquated. Are there any hard requirements

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-25 Thread Richard Biener
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Richard Kenner ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu wrote: It's just that an increasing number of mail agents are configured by default to send rich-text. And people who know enough about

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-25 Thread Richard Biener
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Robert Dewar de...@adacore.com wrote: 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change our policy. Surely there are altenrative email client for Android that have

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-25 Thread Richard Biener
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Robert Dewar de...@adacore.com wrote: On 11/24/2012 12:59 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Robert Dewar de...@adacore.com wrote: 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-25 Thread Diego Novillo
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Richard Biener richard.guent...@gmail.com wrote: That said, filtering any non text/plain mail into spam keeps me off most spam. Thus be warned when you try to get patches in non text/plain sent to me ;) It would be OK for me if the mailing list software we

Sumbitting 'patches' that add lots of files (Was: Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?)

2012-11-25 Thread Joern Rennecke
Quoting Richard Biener richard.guent...@gmail.com: That said, filtering any non text/plain mail into spam keeps me off most spam. Thus be warned when you try to get patches in non text/plain sent to me ;) Should I uuencode new port submissions? Expressing addition of several score files as a

Re: Sumbitting 'patches' that add lots of files (Was: Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?)

2012-11-25 Thread Richard Biener
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Joern Rennecke joern.renne...@embecosm.com wrote: Quoting Richard Biener richard.guent...@gmail.com: That said, filtering any non text/plain mail into spam keeps me off most spam. Thus be warned when you try to get patches in non text/plain sent to me ;)

Re: Sumbitting 'patches' that add lots of files (Was: Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?)

2012-11-25 Thread Joern Rennecke
Quoting Richard Biener richard.guent...@gmail.com: (though doesn't save much space). One file per mail is then convenient for review anyway. That would be 84 mails then just for the added files. And if the testsuite was bigger, that figure would only get larger. Is that really the preferred

Re: Sumbitting 'patches' that add lots of files (Was: Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?)

2012-11-25 Thread Richard Biener
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Joern Rennecke joern.renne...@embecosm.com wrote: Quoting Richard Biener richard.guent...@gmail.com: (though doesn't save much space). One file per mail is then convenient for review anyway. That would be 84 mails then just for the added files. And if the

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-25 Thread Ruben Safir
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:28:39AM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote: My main concern is losing valid content because of this limitation. Your only concern is to send email with your android gmail. You also need to learn to trim the CC line

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Ian Lance Taylor i...@airs.com wrote: 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change our policy. Amen. Rich texts in technical conversations where people people

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-25 Thread NightStrike
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Ruben Safir ru...@mrbrklyn.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:28:39AM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote: My main concern is losing valid content because of this limitation. Your only concern is to send email with your android gmail. You also need to learn to

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 24 November 2012 00:40, Nathan Ridge wrote: I am regular reader of several mailing lists, some of which (such as this one) require plain text, and some (like cdt-dev) which allow rich text. My experience has been that the formatting of messages on plain-text lists is consistent across the

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com writes: Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a technical limitation with our mailing list software. It is not a technical limitation. We explicitly reject HTML e-mail. We could accept it. As Jonathan pointed out, accepting HTML

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Robert Dewar
2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change our policy. Surely there are altenrative email client for Android that have plain text capability???

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor i...@airs.com wrote: Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com writes: Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a technical limitation with our mailing list software. It is not a technical limitation. We explicitly reject

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Robert Dewar de...@adacore.com wrote: 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change our policy. Surely there are altenrative email client for Android that have

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Robert Dewar
On 11/24/2012 12:59 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Robert Dewar de...@adacore.com wrote: 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change our policy. Surely there are

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: [...] I'd love to see data on this. As others have pointed out, almost every other open source project accepts html email. [...] Do you have reason to believe our existing spam detection solution will start to fail

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 24 November 2012 17:47, Robert Dewar wrote: 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change our policy. Surely there are altenrative email client for Android that have plain text capability???

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Robert Dewar
On 11/24/2012 1:13 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: The official gmail app, which obviously integrates well with gmail and is good in most other ways, won't send non-html mails. There seem to be a variety of alternatives

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ruben Safir
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor i...@airs.com wrote: Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com writes: Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a technical limitation with our mailing list

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ruben Safir
Yes, we should expect users to change, instead of keeping up with users. No - we shouldn't punish developers by making them use stupid mime translational servces that breaks the replying mechanism in EMACS and mutt because they are stupidly try to post to a tech mailing list on their android

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Daniel Berlin
Sorry dude, I don't engage in substantive conversation with abusive trolls. On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Ruben Safir ru...@mrbrklyn.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor i...@airs.com wrote: Diego

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ruben Safir
Sorry - I wasn't really interested in debating this any more than one should debate the effects of having your head squashed if you hang your head over the rail when the IRT is coming. It just gets squashed. BTW, as well as learning to use text for email, also please learn to trim the CC

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: In this day and age of rich-text capable mailers, restricting postings to be text-only seems quaint and antiquated. Are there any hard requirements that force us to only accept plain text messages? I think it is a bad

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Ruben Safir
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:12:17PM -0800, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: In this day and age of rich-text capable mailers, restricting postings to be text-only seems quaint and antiquated. Are there any hard requirements that

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Diego Novillo
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Ruben Safir ru...@mrbrklyn.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:12:17PM -0800, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: In this day and age of rich-text capable mailers, restricting postings to be

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Diego Novillo
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Andrew Pinski pins...@gcc.gnu.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: In this day and age of rich-text capable mailers, restricting postings to be text-only seems quaint and antiquated. Are there any hard

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Ruben Safir
incorrect accessment I can't parse this. Maybe HTML markup can help you. Stupid conversation

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Ruben Safir
Why are you using google for your mail? Can't you get a real mail client and a real mail access? Or maybe you work for google, in which I can undersand it.

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Diego Novillo
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ruben Safir ru...@mrbrklyn.com wrote: incorrect accessment I can't parse this. Maybe HTML markup can help you. Stupid conversation No need to respond in such an arrogant and condescending manner. I do not understand what incorrect accessment

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Ruben Safir
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 03:35:57PM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ruben Safir ru...@mrbrklyn.com wrote: incorrect accessment I can't parse this. Maybe HTML markup can help you. Stupid conversation No need to respond in such an arrogant

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/23/2012 08:12 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: In this day and age of rich-text capable mailers, restricting postings to be text-only seems quaint and antiquated. Are there any hard requirements that force us to only

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Diego Novillo
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: On 11/23/2012 08:12 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: In this day and age of rich-text capable mailers, restricting postings to be text-only seems quaint and

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Richard Kenner
And restricting writers, may result in the loss of contributors in the medium/long term. We have a lot of things we do that restrict writers. We insist that patches be tested. We insist that coding standards be followed. We insist that good documentation practices be applied. We don't allow

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Diego Novillo
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Richard Kenner ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu wrote: And restricting writers, may result in the loss of contributors in the medium/long term. We have a lot of things we do that restrict writers. We insist that patches be tested. We insist that coding standards

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Richard Kenner
It's not that they *cannot* follow an arbitrary rule. It is that the rule bears no relation with the quality of their work, so they see it as an artificial roadblock which merely irritates them. Add enough irritants and they may decide to take their contributions elsewhere. Coding standards

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Diego Novillo
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Richard Kenner ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu wrote: Similarly for text-only vs. rich text. You may argue that there's no compatibility issue, but I disagree. As was pointed out upthread, when people use rich text, they often start to use colors or other

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Richard Kenner
It's just that an increasing number of mail agents are configured by default to send rich-text. And people who know enough about computing to work on compilers don't know how to change the default on their MUA? That seems like a poor reason to make such a change.

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Diego Novillo
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Richard Kenner ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu wrote: It's just that an increasing number of mail agents are configured by default to send rich-text. And people who know enough about computing to work on compilers don't know how to change the default on their MUA?

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Dewar
For me the most annoying thing about HTML burdened emails is idiots who choose totally inappropriate fonts, that make their stuff really hard to read. I choose a font for plain text emails that is just right on my screen etc. I do NOT want it overridden. And as for people who use color etc, well

RE: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Nathan Ridge
Similarly for text-only vs. rich text. You may argue that there's no compatibility issue, but I disagree. As was pointed out upthread, when people use rich text, they often start to use colors or other mechanisms to express themselves, which can now be dependent on the rendering agent