On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <a...@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:
> >>> P.S. If you tag your reviews with [REVIEW] in the Subject, it'll be
> >>> easier to keep track of them.
>
> >> I and, I believe, various other people hate that style, because at
> >> least in Gmail, it breaks the threading.  It is much easier to find
> >> things if they are all posted on one thread.
>
> > Yes, please don't do that.  A simple, normal reply to the message that
> > submits the patch is much better from my point of view as a subsequent
> > reviewer and committer.
>
> Worth noting also is that Magnus is working on a new version of the
> commitfest app that will be able to automatically keep track of threads
> about patches --- so long as they *are* threads according to our mailing
> list archives.  I'm not sure if the archives recognize replies with a
> changed Subject: as being the same thread or not.
>

The archives code does threading based on the headers (in-reply-to and
references, in priority order). It completely ignores the subject when it
comes to the threading.

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