I did exactly as discussed with infra (commit to the buildbot config
file) but nothing whatever changed. Am waiting on feedback[1] from infra
as to how to tell buildbot to take notice of my commit.

Upayavira
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11002[1]


On Tue, Dec 29, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Upayavira wrote:
> I've discussed this with infra and have constructed what I believe is
> a workable replacement script that will only update SVN if something
> has changed.
>
> Unfortunately, testing it involves committing to the buildbot SVN and
> waiting to see whether I've broken anything.
>
> I'll be doing this today, so you might see stuff go wrong. If I fail
> to get my updated script to work, I'll revert to the current config.
>
> Upayavira
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015, at 09:55 PM, Upayavira wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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  1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11002?filter=-2

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