Okay. I'll dig further into how to make the commits list actually useful by suppressing these messages.
Whilst Shawn is right - it is the human commit we are interested in - there's a value in having messages from Buildbot when it actually does something, in case someone has worked out an alternative way of accessing our site. I'll report back when I work something out. Upayavira On Sat, Dec 19, 2015, at 07:46 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > I had asked about these messages two and a half years ago and nobody > stepped forward to claim that they had any value and merely suggested > filtering them in the user email client. So, I'm a solid +1 for > suppressing them. Uwe was the only person responding to my inquiry > back in July 2013. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Shawn Heisey > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/18/2015 4:48 PM, Upayavira wrote: >> > We could prevent these messages by making the second and third steps >> > "dependent" upon the first. In which case, they won't occur if > no files >> > are changed. >> > >> > Any objections to doing this? >> >> I'm all for this change. >> >> I added a filter to my email account to move these messages into a >> separate folder, so that I could do "mark folder read", after looking >> through them for changes made by real people instead of the bot. I'm >> considering deleting my 2010-2014 archives for this folder, because I >> don't think I will ever need that information. >> >> I have a little bit of a gripe about seeing *any* notifications about >> buildbot updates to the website. It looks like one of the updates that >> happens automatically is the "Latest SVN" section on the Lucene Core >> page ... but I already get notified about these changes. They are the >> entire point of the commits mailing list. If there is any way to >> suppress notifications about changes to "Latest SVN", I would definitely >> appreciate it. >> >> We used to have a semi-live twitter feed somewhere on the website, but >> it looks like this no longer exists, probably since the site was >> redesigned. If this comes back, it is another update that I really >> don't need to see -- I can always subscribe via twitter if I'm interested. >> >> Thanks, >> Shawn >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>
