Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

Hello,

Le Wed, 01 May 2013 21:33:49 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen  
<bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com> a écrit:

> Hi,
>
> Looking at:
>
>  http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html
>
> depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on there. As the  
> writer of
> mail forward I have been repeatedly asked if we can kill this spam.
>
> I fully agree with this sentiment -- the dev-list should be taylored to  
> be
> inviting to a wide audience of volunteer contributors and not only to  
> those
> hardcore contributors who are full-time sponsored developers. I dont  
> think the
> ESC is the right place to decide this as it is overwhelmingly filled  
> with the
> second.
>
> So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing to kill  
> the mail
> spammage? If so:

As a non-sponsored(!) developer (?), I am not opposed to kill the gerrit  
mail flow.

> - could this be mitigated by a separate gerrit-patches mailing list?
> - could this be mitigated by a daily digest of "gerrit news"?
> - could this be mitigated by other means?

Yes, IMO, the goal is to have an overview of what was commited, so a daily  
digest of *pushed* patches should be enough.
Although this kind of thing will narrow the reviewers list to commiters &  
aked-for-review, which is almost the ESC & sponsored developers list.
So after small thinking, a daily digest with 2 parts: pushed patches and  
yet-to-review patches, trying to increase peer reviewing by other devs.

> I think the drowning of the list with automated patch mail is really  
> hurting us (as
> did the patch mails before). Note that this does:
[SNIP]
+1, note included :)

> I was forced to do the mail forward thingie to accomodate migration of
> antiquiated workflows -- I was never very happy with it and really  
> embarrased
> to defend it when I would have never done it like that myself.
>
> Opinions?
Done
> Best,
Not sur these are the best opnions, but, well, YMMV ;-)

Regards

> Bjoern

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Mat M