[development] Request for comments: Remove comment history from issue emails
Chris Johnson
cxjohnson at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 17:24:45 UTC 2008
Sounds like we will never reach agreement on this. I read it all with
Gmail, so suffer the problems Adam mentions. I realize well that
others have good reasons to take the opposite position.
..chris
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Quoting Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com>:
>
> > Adam Light wrote:
> >> Hi All
> >>
> >> There has been a feature request to stop including the complete
> >> history of issues in each email sent when a new comment on an issue
> >> is created. There are two arguments for doing this:
> >> 1. It's a waste of bandwidth, etc. to resend the complete history
> >> for every issue, and my guess is that most people don't read
> >> anything but the most recent comment.
> >> 2. Some email programs that display messeges in a threaded format,
> >> such as Gmail, display the entire message, and therefore reading
> >> multiple comments in one thread in a row is painful.
>
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