> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > >> They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are > >> supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus > >> this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the > >> Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable. > > > > hrm - I see so is there a particular reason for that behaviour ? > > They're stable until Bruce removes something from the queue. When > something is removed, it's renumbered. > > It's how mhonarc works. It's the same with the archives - if we delete a > mail, they get renumbered. So we never should delete, we should just > blank out, but it has happened a couple of times.
As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this:
[HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3
This way, we could always obtain stable (logical) pointer, without reling on particular archival infrastructure.
This sounds like a good idea to me - though I'm just a lurker on the list.
