[postgis-devel] Mailman labeling shrink proposal

[Chris Hodgson]

Sandro Santilli wrote:
> How would you see the following actions:
>
>  1) change [postgis-devel] to [pgis-dev]
>  2) change [postgis-users] to [pgis-usr]
>   
I wouldn't mind them being shorter either, though I imagine many e-mail 
filters will need to be modified as a result. Perhaps a larger concern 
is  how this affects the various mirrors of our message history, nabble, 
etc. I see in the mailman config that the prefix can be changed without 
changing the actual "name" of the list so that is good, at least.
> Also messages from trac are too long and not that much informative:
>
>   56   L Sep 21 PostGIS         (  32) [PostGIS] #1204: Need to generate upgrade
>
> It'd be best to have submitter/commenter name rather than "PostGIS" 
> in the "From" line. The subject label could become [pgis-trc] for
> conformancy, but is longer than it is, or [pgis], which is shorter.
> Maybe ticket number could be moved to the end...
>   
I don't believe we have this level of control over the trac e-mails... 
it just uses the project name for the prefix and otherwise the format of 
the subject line is hard coded. I could be wrong but I can't find any 
documentation in Trac on how to do it.

Cheers,
Chris