Hi, True! Thanks for bringing this up, Nikita. I wanted to mention the rules on the "Reclassifying engine warnings" thread as well.
Zeev, you might not agree with rules and hints but I strongly believe that they are great rules. Not posting too many times, not posting when you are agitated and angry, thinking about what you want to say for more than few seconds before replying are all good things to think about in order to have a more productive discussion on email. We all have to respect everyone that might be involved in a thread. Replying often on the same thread does not let everyone involved reading and understanding what others are saying, including yourself. And IMHO that is a sign of disrespect, even if there is no real intention do it. I've seen this issue everywhere, both in enterprise threads with too many persons or public OSS threads. It is never productive and it usually brings fights and sentiments in a discussion. We should always take time to think about you response, take time when writing the response and take time to read it again before sending it. IMHO, This shows that you care for the discussion and community. Regards, Alex On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:24 AM Zeev Suraski <z...@php.net> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:43 AM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi internals, > > > > A gentle reminder to everyone that this mailing list has rules, > documented > > at https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/docs/mailinglist-rules.md. > > In > > particular: > > > > And a gentle reminder that these are guidelines (even the document itself > refers to them as "hints", right above the part that was quoted), rather > than rules that must be obeyed. Specifically, there were many discussions > over the years about the "no top-posting" rule (which I'm personally fine > with in most cases) as well as the requirement to merge multiple responses > into one (which I'm absolutely not fine with, and think is completely > counter-productive). Limiting the number of posts to 2-3 also makes > absolutely no sense during a discussion - although not necessarily > responding to each and every email usually does make sense. > > Zeev >
