On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Top-posting is appropriate for short responses that address the entirety of the replied message.
Where does it say that? I'm looking at the guidelines at
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.4.x/www/mailing-list-guidelines.html,
which include no such caveat. Admittedly, they also say that I should
not reflexively chide people for it, and I didn't think I did so
reflexively, but would welcome your opinion on the matter.
That sort of unstated exception is actually a problem for source
control, especially when used for QA. The guidelines for all sorts of
practices like backup and branching and regression testing are often
silently ignored in the field, because "we didn't need to say that" or
"this makes more sense" or one of my favorites from a conversation
last year, "just read the code". And then you don't know what actually
happened or what was done, which is anathema to source control or
testing environments.
Received on 2012-01-08 21:32:10 CET