So, right now we’re using the default template for outgoing email subjects, which is:
[%{site_name}] %{optional_pm}%{optional_cat}%{topic_title}
This works well for sites like Pixls, where you get subjects like:
Subject: [px][Software/RawTherapee] Film Simulation: new link not working …
but for Fedora, because I picked a longer, more descriptive site name (I didn’t want it to just be “Fedora”), and because we have categories and subcategories also with long names, a subject like “The future of real-time (chat) discussion for the Fedora council” ends up looking like:
Subject: [Fedora Discussion] [Project Conversations/Council Discussion] The…
Subject: [Fedora Discussion] [Project Conversations/Council Discussion] The …
Subject: [Fedora Discussion] [Project Conversations/Council Discussion] The…
in a lot of mail clients, which is less than ideal. But this is customizable. The different options are described here, and of course we can just hard-code ‘Fedora’. Unfortunately from that thread there seems to be no way to just get the subcategory, which I think would be most ideal. So my suggestion is
[Fedora] %{optional_pm}%{topic_title} %{optional_cat}
so it’s shortened from “[Fedora Discussion]” to just “Fedora” and the subject comes before the category. (Leaving PM first if that happens to be what this email is for.)
What do you think? I could certainly be persuaded to leave off [Fedora]
entirely.