Re: KTODO automated TODO lists

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 08:36:47AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:25:06 +0300 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 
> > I've refrained from replying to this thread so far, as it seemed to be a
> > caricature of a bikeshedding discussion, but for what it's worth, I
> > often find myself in the opposite situation when I'm annoyed that
> > someone trimmed too much of the discussion in their replies.
> 
> After hitting "page down" 3 or 4 times and seeing only quoted text, I then
> stop and just ignore the email. Yes, there's been emails I purposely
> ignored because of this that had asked me to respond near the end. Oh well.
> Then they ask, "why didn't you respond?" pointing out the email I was to
> respond to. And I would reply, "I never saw the request because of too much
> quoted text".
> 
> > Yes, replying to a 3000-lines patches with a full quote ana d a
> > Reviewed-by tag at the very bottom, without any other comment, is
> > annoying. On the other hand, trimming everything but the few lines to
> > which you reply means that it gets much more annoying to jump in the
> > discussion in the middle of a mail thread. There's a difference between
> > trimming unrelated parts, and removing related content that happens not
> > to be the direct subject of a particular reply.
> 
> I just replied to an email yesterday that cut too much off, and I had to
> make a note about that, and put things back in.
> 
> What's worse, is if you are having a technical debate with someone, and
> they trim out everything that might go against their argument, but leave
> anything that supports their argument. I've seen that happen quite a bit.
> 
> I should write a book called "The art of trimming". ;-)

Maybe a good path forward would be to start by flagging extreme cases
only, without being too pedantic ? That assumes we can agree what an
extreme case is.

One thing I found helpful in replies is to add tags just after the
commit message (where the tag will appear when it gets applied), or
after the last comment if I need to comment on something specific. The
recipient will know that they don't need to scroll down after the tag.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart