On Friday 29 December 2006 16:29, Julien Cristau wrote: > - do you prefer to get commit mails to debian-x or to > xorg_cvs@p.qa.d.o? > > Note that currently, git commit mails contain an "X-XSF-Commit" header, > for people who want to filter them separately. Note that sending them to debian-x means: - they get archived in the ml archives, which is pretty useless (we already have the revision system to archive and track changes after all) and a waste of diskspace on master.d.o and load on murphy.d.o - they get sent to a lot of people who are not really interested and possibly have limited internet bandwidth or quota - those people will have to create filter rules - especially with (huge?) diff attached the first two problems get enlarged and you may actually "scare" people away from the list The only advantage I can see is: more people may eyeball commits and comment. OTOH, annoying people will not lead to more eyes, but less... For d-i we use the PTS, which IMO works quite well. Reply-to is set to the list, so that any comments on commits do get seen by everybody. Subscribing for those interested is a very simple one-time only action. Note that I don't want to force anything, just giving my thoughts as someone who is interested in following X development, but does not really want to get in deep. I already get enough mail volume that personally I am likely to drop out rather than filter at some point. ATM I just blindly delete manually. Cheers, FJP
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