Re: Not ready for 8.3

On 5/15/07, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> > >> They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which
> are
> > >> supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus
> > >> this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the
> > >> Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable.
> > >
> > > hrm - I see so is there a particular reason for that behaviour ?
> >
> > They're stable until Bruce removes something from the queue. When
> > something is removed, it's renumbered.
> >
> > It's how mhonarc works. It's the same with the archives - if we delete a
> > mail, they get renumbered. So we never should delete, we should just
> > blank out, but it has happened a couple of times.
>
> As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each
> subject line in mail? For example like this:
>
> [HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3
>
> This way, we could always obtain stable (logical) pointer, without
> reling on particular archival infrastructure.

This sounds like a good idea to me - though I'm just a lurker on the list.

Nathan