Suggestion: UI keyword in subjects.

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't know if I'm the only one who is mainly interested in the User
> Interface/Interaction part of Amarok development and doesn't understand much
> of the technical stuff.
> But for me and others like me it would make sense to agree on some keyword in
> all UI-related mails to the list. That way if I don't have much time I can
> just scan (or search) for mails containing the keyword in order to save time
> without risking to miss any mails I might want to comment on.
> Of course keywords could also be used for other topics that concern a specific
> group among the subscribers more than others.
> I would suggest [UI] as a keyword for User Interaction/Interface related
> mails.
> Of course the downside is that people might miss other mails that would be
> interesting for them even though they are not related to the topic they're
> most interested in. But the current situation often causes at least me to not
> read any mails on the list at all when time is short, since most of the mails
> are rather technical anyway. With the keyword established, I would read only
> UI mails then but manually scan through all mails when I have more time.
> What do you think of the idea?

Sure, I don't see a problem with doing it. Sometimes we might forget
about adding the keyword, especially when a conversation gradually
shifts to UI related topics over the course of several mails, but
generally we could try to do this.

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
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