On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 09:16 -0400, James E. Blair wrote: > Chris Wright <chr...@sous-sol.org> writes: > > > * Mark McLoughlin (mar...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 13:58 -0400, James E. Blair wrote: > >> > Mark McLoughlin <mar...@redhat.com> writes: > >> > > Anyone can propose a cherry-pick to the maintainers. This helps ensure > >> > > that the maintainers don't miss anything. To catch the maintainers > >> > > attention, simply add > >> > > > >> > > Cc: sta...@openstack.org > >> > > >> > Are you planning on grepping commit logs for that, or are you asking > >> > people to email that address? > >> > >> Yeah, it's just a marker to grep for. > >> > >> Having a sta...@openstack.org alias might be no harm, though. > > > > It's been invaluable for the kernel. Having the marker in the commit > > log allows for automated propagation. When the commit hits upstream, > > email lands in the stable inbox. Not having the mail alias isn't as big > > a deal as not having the marker in the commit log, though. > > We can use gerrit to help with this. Anyone can set up a watch in > gerrit that notifies them of changes matching certain criteria. To > implement the above suggestion, you would create a watch on this screen: > > https://review-dev.openstack.org/#settings,projects > > with the settings: > > Project Name: All-Projects > Only If: message:"sta...@openstack.org" > > And then check the "Email Notifications - New Changes" checkbox. That > will cause gerrit to send an email whenever a matching change is > proposed, and better yet, the change shows up in your 'watched changes' > list in gerrit. > > The search language is very flexible, here's the whole vocabulary: > > https://review.openstack.org/Documentation/user-search.html
Wow, that's a nice tip. Thanks James. > Of course the search string could be anything. If we use gerrit project > watches for this, I think we should not use an email address as the > marker if it isn't a real email address. Since if we use watches, we > don't have to create a new mailing list, I'd prefer not to. Maybe just > search for the string "stable-updates". On the other hand, if the > maintainers want a list anyway, then we can turn on the mailing list > feature for the group in launchpad, and use that address as the tag. Yeah, having a mailing list or alias isn't critical. Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
