Re: your mail

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2017, 18:44 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvanmee7j.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170623165347.s6byszwdps34ntzv@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:23:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Otoh, "community" page does not encourage subscription as a way to
>> ensure you'll see follow-up discussion, which may be a good thing to
>> add.
>> 
>> A tangent I just found funny is this paragraph on the "community"
>> page:
>> 
>>     The archive can be found on public-inbox. Click here to
>>     subscribe.
>> 
>> Of course clicking does not take you to a subscription page for
>> public-inbox, even though the two sentences appear to be related.
>> 
>> Perhaps swap the order of the two, like so, with a bit richer
>> explanation taken from Ævar's version:
>> 
>> 	... disable HTML in your outgoing messages.
>> 
>> 	By subscribing (click here), you can make sure you're not
>> 	missing follow-up discussion and also learn from other
>> 	development in the community.  The list archive can be found
>> 	on public-inbox.
>
> Yeah, I think that's a good suggestion. Do you want to phrase it in the
> form of a patch? :)

OK. Letme try.