[whatwg] commit-watchers mail format

Philip Taylor excors+whatwg at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 15:52:11 PDT 2008


The mails sent to commit-watchers at whatwg.org are not very
user-friendly. In particular, I collect them in Gmail and 'star'
interesting ones that I want to look at in more detail in the future.
When looking at the list of starred emails, I see:

  whatwg  WHATWG ‎[html5] r1771 - / - Author: ianh Date: 2008-06-13
01:59:40 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jun 2008) New Revision: 1771 Modified …  13
Jun
  whatwg  WHATWG ‎[html5] r1770 - / - Author: ianh Date: 2008-06-13
01:49:25 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jun 2008) New Revision: 1770 Modified …  13
Jun
  whatwg  WHATWG ‎[html5] r1768 - / - Author: ianh Date: 2008-06-13
01:22:57 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jun 2008) New Revision: 1768 Modified …  13
Jun
  whatwg  WHATWG ‎[html5] r1767 - / - Author: ianh Date: 2008-06-13
01:12:01 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jun 2008) New Revision: 1767 Modified …  13
Jun

which makes it impossible to work out what a given email is about, or
to find the email that's about a given change. So it could be nice if
the commit message was in the subject line, or at the top of the body
(so it would appear in Gmail's content snippet thing).

-- 
Philip Taylor
excors at gmail.com


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