do you know enough about what (other) Bazaar developers are doing?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Martin Pool writes:
 > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
 > > My issues are (1) the Bundle Buggy messages (but with my MUA that's my
 > > laziness, I could easily filter them out) and (2) the amount of top-
 > > and bottom-posting and lack of trimming that some core developers do.
 > 
 > I particularly notice lack of trimming in code reviews.  Is that what
 > you had in mind?

It seems more prevalent in code review threads, yes, but I'm not
referring to cases where the whole patch is quoted.  More where people
often leave gobs of previous commentary in as well.  It's especially
noticable when somebody quotes an entire /reply/ to a patch and ends
with

bb:approve
Robert

and yes, I personally do find it especially annoying when Robert does
it :-) because I try to read most of what he writes!

 > Let's not turn this into a general thread about top posting or the
 > ideal amount of quoting but if you could be a bit more specific that
 > may help.

Optimal quoting is certainly not my point; rather that the presence of
large blocks of untrimmed quote changes the tone of a thread to me, to
one where "we're all insiders here".

It's possible that that "we're insiders here" tone is appropriate in
code review threads.  Maybe I'm unusual as an outsider with no present
plan to contribute code to Bazaar but who does read code reviews.