Re: [Tools-discuss] last-call list subject lines

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

On 9/28/20 3:33 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote:
>      > Can you say more about why that change would help?
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> Sorting by subject would be more useful.
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> Scanning by eye is easier, particularly since the right-hand
> side often gets truncated.
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> Yes, I can use search in the end, which is what I did.

Right.

Searching would be made a little more difficult were we to change things 
as you suggested (at least with simple string searches).

Right now, you can search for all the reviews on a doc using "review of 
draft-<blah>" or "telechat review of draft-<blah>".

Splitting it as you propose would require two passes (or something that 
does more than simple string matching) to get the second thing.

I see the potential benefit in subject sorting.

I'm not sure its a big enough win to drive a change though - if we were 
to change, future searchers (looking across the period of change) would 
have to search for both things.

Also, for sorting there's the tradeoff against someone that wants to 
sort by type of review or team.

Scanning by eye suffers some of the same tradeoffs. Since group acronyms 
tend to be short, as are the types of review, the form of the line is 
currently mostly static as you scan down - the column breaks move a 
little with a very rough right edge. Moving the draft name to the front 
will make all the column boundaries very rough.

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