Re: lintian errors/warnings on ddpo-by-mail emails
On 30/04/09 at 12:07 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Sune Vuorela wrote:
>
> > On 2009-04-30, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> >> On 30/04/09 at 01:43 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> >>> But despite all that my original question hasn't quite been answered.
> >>> Gregor is in favour of sending messages even if only lintian issues
> >>> exist, but Lucas doesn't like the idea.
> >>> What about something in between? only errors if another issue exists for
> >>> the same given package? or only errors if there's an issue for any of
> >>> the co-/maintained packages?
> >>
> >> I would be fine with any of that. However, the real problem is to keep
> >> the signal-to-noise ratio high in ddpo mails. If it just becomes yet
> >> another regular email that can be safely ignored, it will be a net loss
> >> for QA.
>
> Of course, and that's exactly what am trying to avoid. What about the
> following combination?
>
> * Lintian issues by themselves do not cause the email to be sent
> * Only lintian errors cause a given package to be mentioned in the email,
> not warnings.
> * Errors and warnings counts are both included.
>
> Or the following one:
>
> * Lintian issues by themselves do not cause the email to be sent
> * Neither lintian errors nor warnings cause a given package to be mentioned
> in the email.
> * Errors and warnings counts are both included.
This one sounds simpler, but I wouldn't mind the first one neither.
Also, if packages have lintian errors/warnings, please provide a link to
the proper full list of errors and warnings for the maintainer.
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