Gerrit mails, from address, verbosity, etc

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Max msuraev at sysmocom.de
Tue May 17 08:01:38 UTC 2016


Hi.

Lot's of projects have separate mailing list *-commits (or smth like
that) for such auto-generated emails. I like this option most - it helps
to keep large volume of emails which are of interest to rather small
group of developers clearly separated from much small number of emails
which might be of general interest for users.

On 05/16/2016 10:41 AM, Holger Freyther wrote:
> 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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