[email protected] wrote:
> As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in
> the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports
Hi all,
Reports should be ordered to draw the interest of readers, these aren't yet.
Probably:
Many readers on ports@ often delete these periodic mails part unread, for
lack of time, as too verbose & hard to quickly scan (not read) through.
Remaining readers mostly just try to Quickly scan
Just the 2nd column in the top line of each section, ie
category/portname
Just to check ports they use are not mentioned,
trying to Not read irrelevant junk,
hoping to hit Delete ASAP.
If a port interest, they would be prepared to scan down
If not, delete ASAP, (as fewer are interested in creating
patches & filing send-pr for ports they don't use).
It's hard to quickly scan Just those 2nd col 1st line.
To insert a simple initial list of nothing but port names:
echo $shorter_intro > posting
cat report | grep portname: | sed -e s/portname:// >> posting
cat report >> posting
cat footnotes_was_intro >> posting
Move the bulky introduction to foot notes. Consider the eye of a busy reader:
"Argh! I got trapped reading that old boring blurb Again!
Why no title like "Bad Ports Report" in top of body (not just Subject:)
to prompt us if we've seen the title before we can skip the intro?
Probably no ports that interest me anyway,
Shall I wade through all that text, in case something of interest, Or
Shall I gamble it's probably irrelevant to me, save time & hit Delete ?"
$shorter_intro= \
"Ports listed below have gone bad; Details below list; Notes below that."
Cheers,
Julian
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