On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:31:51AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival <[email protected]> writes: > > > As an experiment, I have changed all (hopefully?) of these issues > > from Patch-review to Patch-countdown. You can see the complete > > list here: > > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list?can=2&q=Patch%3Dcountdown > > > > To avoid cluttering up bug-lilypond, I manually un-checked the > > "send email" option at the bottom of the email. > > Where is the point in changing patch status and telling nobody who did > not look yet? Sorry, I think that is a bad idea. "Patch-countdown" is > a final warning of the "speak now or be forever silent" kind.
You previously had one option to see the countdown: 1. read -devel, read all the responses to the initial countdown message, mentally subtract the 2 or 3 patches that were "withdrawn" by the authors because they didn't remove the "patch-review" label when they should have, then look at the remaining patches. With a countdown of 5 issues, that's ok-ish, but when we get up to 10 issues, that's more mental arithmetic than I want to do. I'm bad at arithmetic. There's now a second and third option: 2. read -devel, see there's a new countdown, skim the list, then lick on the helpful link http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list?can=2&q=Patch%3Dcountdown that gives you a complete up-to-date list of patches that are in danger of being pushed. 3. check that helpful link once a day. Or, after the automatic script is generating these, just check it on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (GMT), or maybe tues/fri/sat depending on your time zome. And email would still be sent to -devel about the initial list, of course, just like we currently do. So the first option is still on the table if you enjoy mental arithmetic. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
