On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Ville Skyttä wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Operations on the pkgdb appear to result in lots and lots of mail on the > > commits list, one high level operation such as orphaning a package > > appears to often spew around ten mails. > > If you're getting ten messages then there's something wrong. Orphaning > packages is currently generating one notification per branch[1]_.... Ok, that seems to be true, but my example was just a general one. The orphaning case seems to be related to people for some reason tweaking EOLd branches. > > This makes following the commits list much harder than before. Is > > reducing the number of these messages being worked on (eg. grouping > > results of a single high level operation into one mail instead of sending > > one for each bit)? I can of course add local filters to take care of it, > > but that's just a band aid. > > ...but I definitely agree that there is too much mail being sent even if > it's only half that amount. Yep, and for some things such as "add Joe Packager as a co-maintainer for foo" it's even worse than that, for example adding Dmitry as co-maintainer for mail-notification has resulted in 24 mails thus far. elinks -dump https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2007-August/thread.html | grep '\[pkgdb\].*mail-notification' > Some options: [...] > Comments, other options? I'm currently leaning towards implementing #2 > short term (by end of week) and working on #3 and #1 on a broader time > frame. 1-3 sound fine to me, but I'd also like to suggest considering either directing the pkgdb messages to a completely separate list, or adding some topic categories in mailman config for the commits list. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
