Bug report subject lines
| From: | Marko Karppinen | Date: | Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:10:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Bug report subject lines | ||
| Groups: | php.dev | ||
| Request: | Send a blank email to php-dev+get-79533@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
Since it seems that someone is working on the bug report system,
here's my suggestion for improvement:
The bug report subject lines seem to carry a LOT of excess baggage.
The subject line for an update email for a bug in the five-digit range
contains 30 (!) characters of text before the bug report title starts:
123456789012345678901234567890
"[PHP-DEV] Bug #15415 Updated: " "[VOTE] case sensitive function/class names
for PHP5"
My email program displays about 50 characters of the subject line by
default, so this is significant. I don't object to these emails being sent
to php-dev, but perhaps the subject could me mangled a bit to save some
space:
"[PHP-BUG]15415: " would represent savings of 14 characters from each
subject line, significantly improving legibility. I wonder if the list
manager can be massaged to let this through without prepending [PHP-DEV] on
it?
--Marko