I think I should have sent this to evolution-hackers as well considering the recent request they made about automated emails of patches, so I'm resending so they can respond as well...
On 5/11/05, Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do others think of having > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-nag.cgi > replace > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-report.cgi > ? > > I believe this provides more information and makes it much easier to > get straight to the patches so that they can be marked as reviewed > (You don't have to click on a link which takes you to patch-status.cgi > which redirects you to buglist.cgi, where you have to click on another > link for the bug you want, where you have to scroll down to the patch > that you want to edit. My version has a link to editing each > individual patch on the first page so that there is only one level of > nesting). Making the change means that people with bookmarks get a > new improved version immediately; not replacing means > yet-another-patch-report. :-) > > (Note also that I've already cheated and made patch-status.cgi point > to patch-nag.cgi -- limiting to a product or even a component sure > speeds the query up). > > Other questions: > 1) Is there anything that should be added/removed/modified with the > patch-nag.cgi page? (Sebastien suggested modifying attachment.cgi by > adding an action=review option that looks like action=view but > provides a link to the attachment box of show_bug.cgi; the idea being > that patch-nag.cgi would then link to action=review instead of > action=edit for the patches) > > 2) I would like to periodically email maintainers a condensed form of > what's on the patch-nag.cgi page, and then provide them with a link to > the patch-nag/patch-report page. How often should such an email be > sent, and what should its contents be? (My current idea is something > like "You have xx unreviewed patches in product blablabla; click on > <link to patch-nag/patch-report> for more info, but note that the > following new patches have been added to this list in the last > <day/week/whatever>: <basic info about new patches>" This idea would > require some additional work to get patch ages, but not a whole lot) > > Thanks, > Elijah > _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
