Please drop the please... please?

Morten Kjeldgaard mok at bioxray.au.dk
Fri Feb 27 08:19:28 UTC 2009


Hi,

When I browsed the content of my mailbox folder with new bugmail this  
morning, I became mildly annoyed at the overly polite subjects  
"Please..." this or "Please..." that.

Isn't it overdoing the (wonderful) Ubuntu politeness a bit? The result  
of all this verbiage in the mail subject is that the _interesting_  
part of the subject is moved further to the right in the message  
listing where it is often truncated by the next column.

So, couldn't we accept the technically exact  "Sync foo" and "Backport  
foo" instead of "Please sync foo" and  "Please backport foo"?? The  
"Please" can be put in the wording of the message, if politeness is  
required.

Please? :-)

Cheers,
Morten

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Morten Kjeldgaard <mok0 at ubuntu.com>
Ubuntu MOTU Developer
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