Hi. Lot's of projects have separate mailing list *-commits (or smth like that) for such auto-generated emails. I like this option most - it helps to keep large volume of emails which are of interest to rather small group of developers clearly separated from much small number of emails which might be of general interest for users.
On 05/16/2016 10:41 AM, Holger Freyther wrote: > Hi, > > we have the first round of contributions through Gerrit and maybe now is a > good time to look at the mail setup. My goal was to: > > * Have diff's/patches be sent to the MailingList to see what is going on > * Have comments be sent to the MailingList to have people learn from feedback > > In terms of technology Gerrit offers us the following notifications[1] > > new_changes Somebody created a new change > new_patchsets Somebody updated/added a patch(set) to a change > all_comments Somebody but jenkins commented > submitted_changes Somebody has pushed the submit button and it is in > abandoned_changes Somebody gave up on the change > all Everything > > > Currently we are using "all" and maybe we want to limit it to "new_patchsets" > and "all_comments". "all_comments" is a bit troublesome as it includes empty > messages like "+2" with actual review comments. > > What would be the close to ideal solution? > > * Be able to reply by mail to changes (most likely not to come) > * Mails sent have the author name as From (but gerrit mail address)? > * Empty mails like "+2" not sent to the Mailinglist? > * Subject changed? [PATCH] and omit branch name? Or omit project name? > > Other proposals? Move it to a new mailinglist and leave OpenBSC as low-volume > mailinglist? > > > comments? feedback? ideas? > > holger > > > [1] > https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-notify.html#notify.name.type > > > -- Max Suraev <msur...@sysmocom.de> http://www.sysmocom.de/ ======================================================================= * sysmocom - systems for mobile communications GmbH * Alt-Moabit 93 * 10559 Berlin, Germany * Sitz / Registered office: Berlin, HRB 134158 B * Geschaeftsfuehrer / Managing Directors: Holger Freyther, Harald Welte
