On 08/07/2014 08:46, Poenitz Andre wrote: > Blasche Alexander wrote: >> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >>> i tried to reduce the flood somewhat by denying the bots (including CI) >>> the right to mail reviewers, so only the owner now gets the emails. >>> on the downside, you now need to pay more attention in case you adopt a >>> change from someone else, as you are still a reviewer as far as gerrit >>> is concerned ... >> >> Please revert this "feature". Why is this important? >> >> 1. ) I don't have to frequently poll all the changes which I review for their >> failures. I use gerrit via email push and not website poll. Why should >> I change to back to such less efficient method? >> >> 2.) I receive a significant number of patches from devs who don't have >> approver rights and need some considerable hand-holding. Now they >> have to constantly ping me when something fails. This is especially >> bad when it was me who was staging it on their behalf. If you have >> weired CI errors, license check failures or unintended platform side >> effects the amount of handholding goes up signficantly. >> >> 3.) I monitor progress in my code areas because I review the parts which >> are relevant. Subsequently I don't just want to monitor their success. >> >> I can understand that some code lines are very buggy and require more >> attempts (hence more failure "spam"). Then again we should focus >> on stabilizing them. >> >> Also it is dead simple to filter those failures out of your mailbox. >> All you have to look for is "FAILURE" and check that "Gerrit-Owner:" >> is not you. This way you don't force a behavior change on everybody >> else. Right now I am feeling forced. >> >> Is it just me or how much does everybody else rely on it? > It's not just you. I pretty much prefer mails in my inbox in case > something happens (or fails) over polling a web interface too.
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