Quoting Roberto C. Sánchez (2019-01-03 16:33:51) > I have built up quite a backlog of email, so I did not see that the > discussion had effectively concluded when I wrote my message. > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 04:25:14PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 15271 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > > Probably better to say something like, "When a blog is removed, > > > the committer should send a direct email message to the author of > > > the removed content explaining the reason for the removal." > > > > Ah please not. > > > > > That keeps potentially loaded statements from being recorded in > > > commit message forever. It also allows the author something > > > perhaps more complete than a short sentence fragment in a commit > > > message upon which to base a decision on how to proceed. > > > > And I sometimes remove blogs for them just going 5xx. A commit msg > > is fine. > > > I still think an email to the author would be a good thing in that > case. I have had parts of my site stop functioning and known of it for > some time. An email from someone telling me that it is broken is > something I consider to be helpful.
I find it problematic to _promise_ an email notice upon removal. Sure it is a nice gesture to notify, but I see no reason to codify that. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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