[Attn Maintainer] stow

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Jul 31 18:53:00 GMT 2015


On 7/31/2015 2:44 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/31/2015 2:01 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Andrew Schulman writes:
>>> I have a filter set up to flag messages with HEADSUP in the subject line as
>>> important.  So I always read those.  Other maintainers are probably filtering on
>>> HEADSUP in a similar way.
>>
>> I wasn't aware that this was an agreed-upon keyword and I can't find
>> where it is documented, but I think it should be.
>
> I'm not sure it's an agreed-upon keyword, and I'm actually surprised to hear
> that some maintainers are filtering on that word.  As a practical matter,
> however, I think Andrew is probably right that HEADSUP is a good way to get the
> attention of several maintainers at once.  Corinna and Yaakov seem to be the
> main people who use it (e.g.,
> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-05/msg00040.html).

None of this discussion should detract from the amazing job you've done in 
pulling this Perl update together.  I hope you get several gold stars and/or 
plush hippos for all your work.

Ken



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