Gerrit mails, from address, verbosity, etc

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Holger Freyther holger at freyther.de
Mon May 16 08:41:48 UTC 2016


Hi,

we have the first round of contributions through Gerrit and maybe now is a good time to look at the mail setup. My goal was to:

* Have diff's/patches be sent to the MailingList to see what is going on
* Have comments be sent to the MailingList to have people learn from feedback

In terms of technology Gerrit offers us the following notifications[1]

new_changes		Somebody created a new change
new_patchsets		Somebody updated/added a patch(set) to a change
all_comments		Somebody but jenkins commented
submitted_changes	Somebody has pushed the submit button and it is in
abandoned_changes	Somebody gave up on the change
all			Everything


Currently we are using "all" and maybe we want to limit it to "new_patchsets" and "all_comments". "all_comments" is a bit troublesome as it includes empty messages like "+2" with actual review comments.

What would be the close to ideal solution?

* Be able to reply by mail to changes (most likely not to come)
* Mails sent have the author name as From (but gerrit mail address)?
* Empty mails like "+2" not sent to the Mailinglist?
* Subject changed? [PATCH] and omit branch name? Or omit project name?

Other proposals? Move it to a new mailinglist and leave OpenBSC as low-volume mailinglist?


comments? feedback? ideas?

	holger


[1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-notify.html#notify.name.type






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