Re: Mail thread references in commits

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Mail thread references in commits
Date: 2016-11-20 14:59:04
Message-ID: 29df5b73-d823-ade4-cb17-47142742a83c@dunslane.net
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On 11/20/2016 06:55 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>
> We can replace the website part with a http://postgr.es/m/<messageid>
> which will make it a bit shorter and still as easy to generate from
> the client side and to search off. It'd be trivial to do, and since
> there is no state held at the forwarder for it, it wouldn't introduce
> a risk of "losing the forwards at some point in the future". But the
> bulk of the URL, being the messageid, would remain.
>
>
>

That's 19 extra characters, less 2 if you remove the <> delimiters. I
think the extra usability makes the slight increase in ugliness worth
it. Can we just agree or disagree on this?

cheers

andrew

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