Herbert now seems to have applied the patch. Hopefully this will improve the email situation for everyone.
Matt On 20 Jan 2016 1:15 pm, "Matthew Pickering" <[email protected]> wrote: > I attach a patch which should improve the notifications. > > Here is an example of the new output. > > https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/HdlVbQt4/ > > Matt > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Matthew Pickering > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you had any chance to think about this yet Herbert? > > > > Matt > > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Ben Gamari <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ben Gamari <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >>> Matthew Pickering <[email protected]> writes: > >>> > >>>> I subscribe to the ghc-tickets[1] mailing list which provides updates > >>>> to all trac tickets. This is very useful, however when a ticket > >>>> description is updated the whole description is included in the email > >>>> which makes it hard to see what actually changed. The web interface > >>>> shows a nice diff[2] of the changes, I think it would be good if > >>>> emails could also include a diff rather than the current quite useless > >>>> output. > >>>> > >>> I think this would be a great improvement. I, for one, am quite guilty > >>> of incrementally editing ticket descriptions and the current email > >>> notifications are nearly useless in this case. > >>> > >>>> After a bit of investigation, it appears that the easiest way to > >>>> achieve this is apply a simple patch to our copy of trac. The current > >>>> format is hard coded on line 558 in this module, it seems easy to > >>>> modify this section to instead provide a diff. > >>>> > >>> Herbert, perhaps we could do something along these lines? > >>> > >> Ping. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> - Ben >
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