The traffic is already a nuisance! Commenting on your previous rebuttal:

> Well, as I am watching tens of repos on Github, my mailbox is full of such 
> emails.

That’s a problem with your mail client configuration, not the process!

> I would not notice such a mention, unless I decide to read the thread because 
> the title is interesting.

GitHub sets lots of headers – standard list ones in a predictable manner for 
each repo – and also some useful extra ones (I use them to filter out some 
other very high activity repos). In particular, watching for X-GitHub-Reason: 
mention allows you to mark as high priority (or whatever you want to do in your 
MUA) a comment in which you’ve been tagged.

> Direct mails would be much better.

No they would not – getting people on the conversation thread of a PR is vastly 
superior; it groups the information and discussion in the place where it’s 
merged and archives it there. I have certainly had to bisect opam-repository 
before, so being able to go from a SHA1->Merge->PR->Conversation is very useful.

On this string of PRs, I’m wondering if you’re treating the symptom, and not 
the cause. Each PR so far is to do with an altered checksum from a code 
service’s binary release system which suggests that they’re not canonical (i.e. 
that they’ve changed the zip in what should be a trivial manner – e.g. putting 
the files in a different order). Rather than fixing the checksums, and causing 
this to happen again at the whim of a zip library, would it not be better to 
put in place a policy that zip links should not be to GitHub/BitBucket/Whatever 
auto-generating URLs but to actual static files (e.g. on github.io)?


David


From: opam-devel [mailto:opam-devel-boun...@lists.ocaml.org] On Behalf Of 
Fabrice Le Fessant
Sent: 22 February 2016 15:33
To: opam-devel
Subject: [opam-devel] mailing liste for opam-repo maintainers

Hi,

  Is there a mailing-list for opam-repo maintainers only ? For me, this list is 
about the development of OPAM itself, I am a bit concerned about the trafic if 
we start to send emails on this list for synchronisation between repo 
maintainers. Would it be worth creating 
opam-r...@ocaml.org<mailto:opam-r...@ocaml.org> ?

Regards,
--Fabrice
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