Here are a small collection of subject lines of emails sent automatically to me by various Fedora systems in the past few days: Subject: upgradepath PASSED for FEDORA-2015-850e89be8b Subject: [Fedora Update] [comment] auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 Subject: rjones's libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 completed Subject: rpmlint PASSED for libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 Subject: Broken dependencies: libguestfs Subject: ABRT report for package gnome-boxes has reached 10 occurrences Subject: [Bug 1269975] svirt very occasionally prevents parallel libvirt [..] Subject: Fedora 'packager' sponsor needed for suanand Subject: sailer's mingw-sqlite-3.10.1.0-1.fc24 failed to build Subject: libguestfs's builds are back to normal in f24 Subject: dchen pushed to ocaml-lwt (el6). "New upstream version 2.2.0." The only consistent thing is there's nothing consistent about them :-/ I'd like to propose a very lightweight "standard" for subject lines of emails. (1) The first word should be the package name which the email concerns. If the email is not about a package, but about a person, then the first word should be the FAS username of that person. (2) The second word should be the status, reflecting what the reader needs to know or do, for example "succeeded", "failed", "submitted". That's it! The above subject lines might become (chopped to 72 characters to simulate what you might see in a text-based email reader): Subject: auto-buildrequires passed: upgradepath FEDORA-2015-850e89be8b Subject: auto-buildrequires submitted: auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 Subject: libguestfs completed: rjones's libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 build c Subject: libguestfs passed: rpmlint libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 Subject: libguestfs failed: Broken dependencies found in package libgues Subject: gnome-boxes failed: ABRT report for package gnome-boxes has rea Subject: selinux-policy comment: [Bug 1269975] svirt very occasionally p Subject: suanand requested: Fedora 'packager' sponsor needed for suanand Subject: mingw-sqlite failed: sailer's mingw-sqlite-3.10.1.0-1.fc24 fail Subject: libguestfs passed: libguestfs's builds are back to normal in f2 Subject: ocaml-lwt pushed: dchen pushed to ocaml-lwt (el6). "New upstre Maybe you have some better ideas? A related topic is headers, which could be used for filtering. Various systems add headers -- see examples below -- but again there's not much consistency and the headers aren't particularly useful for filtering. Rich. X-Fedmsg-Topic: org.fedoraproject.prod.taskotron.result.new X-Fedmsg-Category: taskotron X-Fedmsg-Package: libguestfs X-Bodhi-Update-Builds: auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 X-Bodhi-Update-Pushed: True X-Bodhi-Update-Type: enhancement X-Bodhi-Update-Release: F23 X-Bodhi-Update-Status: testing X-Bodhi-Update-Request: stable X-Bodhi-Update-Submitter: rjones X-Bodhi-Update-Title: auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 X-Bodhi: fedoraproject.org -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
