Whichever way you want to, as it does not make that big of a difference, but the normal approach with battens (those evenly spaced boards running East/West) is to put the long direction of the drywall sheets perpendicular to the battens.
adding an explanation/definition to the answer that "batten" is the term for OP's 'evenly spaced boards')
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