Em Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:36:32 +0200 (CEST) Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovet...@gmx.de> escreveu:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, hermann pitton wrote: > > > on the pull requests is at least nothing new since years. > > > > Previously all patches were on video4linux and the linux-dvb ML and > > dealt with independently as far as possible. > > > > Because of all the hybrid devices that changed, but still someone having > > only analog TV reception likely doesn't want to read all about the > > digital stuff and in the other direction I assume in counts even more. > > > > So far the mercurial pull requests from the more active developers > > worked quite well. Historically seen you would have had a need at some > > point to see _all_ patches on both lists, if you follow the rule _all_ > > patches must be on the list(s). > > > > Now, with linux-media, everybody subscribed has the traffic of both of > > the old lists. Means for most people 50% are off topic. > > > > But the really funny thing comes now, we have with you and all the > > others suddenly about 70% of traffic on the list about cams :) > > > > I'm sure that more than 90% of the old v4l and dvb list members are not > > interested in that stuff at all :) > > Sure, and that's fine, because I'm not interested in them being not > interested in that stuff at all:-) > > Now, how about this idea: > > someone writes a script to intercept all hg pull requests from lmml > (procmail rule), forward that mail to a special media-patch list, and > extract and post as replies to that mail all individual patches? And that > list should be configured to only accept mails from that script or replies > to its mails, so, it'd be spam-free. And that list would also be used for > patch discussion. How does this sound? This can be done. If you write such script in perl or python [1], I can put it to run at linuxtv. You'll likely need to handle also the pull request replies. [1] since we don't have procmail (or exim) installed there. Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
