Re: Standard, consistent subject lines for automated emails
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 01:34:12PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > A related topic is headers, which could be used for filtering. > Various systems add headers -- see examples below -- but again there's > not much consistency and the headers aren't particularly useful for > filtering. A standard header indicating just that the message is automatically generated would also be helpful, for a) putting them in a separate folder and b) filtering them out of analytics. -- Matthew MillerFedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Standard, consistent subject lines for automated emails
Am 18.01.2016 um 16:27 schrieb Matthew Miller: On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 01:34:12PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: A related topic is headers, which could be used for filtering. Various systems add headers -- see examples below -- but again there's not much consistency and the headers aren't particularly useful for filtering. A standard header indicating just that the message is automatically generated would also be helpful, for a) putting them in a separate folder and b) filtering them out of analytics the redhat-bugzilla does that after a bugreport from me long ago and the main purpose of them is to avoid autorepsonders (all sane autorepsonders supress replies if that headers are present, not only but also for loop-protection) Precedence: bulk Auto-Submitted: auto-generated signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Standard, consistent subject lines for automated emails
On 16/01/16 13:34 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Here are a small collection of subject lines of emails sent automatically to me by various Fedora systems in the past few days: Subject: upgradepath PASSED for FEDORA-2015-850e89be8b Subject: [Fedora Update] [comment] auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 Subject: rjones's libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 completed Subject: rpmlint PASSED for libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 Subject: Broken dependencies: libguestfs Subject: ABRT report for package gnome-boxes has reached 10 occurrences Subject: [Bug 1269975] svirt very occasionally prevents parallel libvirt [..] Subject: Fedora 'packager' sponsor needed for suanand Subject: sailer's mingw-sqlite-3.10.1.0-1.fc24 failed to build Subject: libguestfs's builds are back to normal in f24 Subject: dchen pushed to ocaml-lwt (el6). "New upstream version 2.2.0." The only consistent thing is there's nothing consistent about them :-/ I've been thinking about complaining about the very same thing! (2) The second word should be the status, reflecting what the reader needs to know or do, for example "succeeded", "failed", "submitted". Yes! Some scratch builds have a really long header and the "completed" or "failed" is not visible even with far more than 72 characters shown. Maybe you have some better ideas? LGTM. A related topic is headers, which could be used for filtering. Various systems add headers -- see examples below -- but again there's not much consistency and the headers aren't particularly useful for filtering. Yes again. It would be great if the headers were more useful. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Standard, consistent subject lines for automated emails
Here are a small collection of subject lines of emails sent automatically to me by various Fedora systems in the past few days: Subject: upgradepath PASSED for FEDORA-2015-850e89be8b Subject: [Fedora Update] [comment] auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 Subject: rjones's libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 completed Subject: rpmlint PASSED for libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 Subject: Broken dependencies: libguestfs Subject: ABRT report for package gnome-boxes has reached 10 occurrences Subject: [Bug 1269975] svirt very occasionally prevents parallel libvirt [..] Subject: Fedora 'packager' sponsor needed for suanand Subject: sailer's mingw-sqlite-3.10.1.0-1.fc24 failed to build Subject: libguestfs's builds are back to normal in f24 Subject: dchen pushed to ocaml-lwt (el6). "New upstream version 2.2.0." The only consistent thing is there's nothing consistent about them :-/ I'd like to propose a very lightweight "standard" for subject lines of emails. (1) The first word should be the package name which the email concerns. If the email is not about a package, but about a person, then the first word should be the FAS username of that person. (2) The second word should be the status, reflecting what the reader needs to know or do, for example "succeeded", "failed", "submitted". That's it! The above subject lines might become (chopped to 72 characters to simulate what you might see in a text-based email reader): Subject: auto-buildrequires passed: upgradepath FEDORA-2015-850e89be8b Subject: auto-buildrequires submitted: auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 Subject: libguestfs completed: rjones's libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 build c Subject: libguestfs passed: rpmlint libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 Subject: libguestfs failed: Broken dependencies found in package libgues Subject: gnome-boxes failed: ABRT report for package gnome-boxes has rea Subject: selinux-policy comment: [Bug 1269975] svirt very occasionally p Subject: suanand requested: Fedora 'packager' sponsor needed for suanand Subject: mingw-sqlite failed: sailer's mingw-sqlite-3.10.1.0-1.fc24 fail Subject: libguestfs passed: libguestfs's builds are back to normal in f2 Subject: ocaml-lwt pushed: dchen pushed to ocaml-lwt (el6). "New upstre Maybe you have some better ideas? A related topic is headers, which could be used for filtering. Various systems add headers -- see examples below -- but again there's not much consistency and the headers aren't particularly useful for filtering. Rich. X-Fedmsg-Topic: org.fedoraproject.prod.taskotron.result.new X-Fedmsg-Category: taskotron X-Fedmsg-Package: libguestfs X-Bodhi-Update-Builds: auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 X-Bodhi-Update-Pushed: True X-Bodhi-Update-Type: enhancement X-Bodhi-Update-Release: F23 X-Bodhi-Update-Status: testing X-Bodhi-Update-Request: stable X-Bodhi-Update-Submitter: rjones X-Bodhi-Update-Title: auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 X-Bodhi: fedoraproject.org -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Standard, consistent subject lines for automated emails
Am 16.01.2016 um 14:34 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: Here are a small collection of subject lines of emails sent automatically to me by various Fedora systems in the past few days: Subject: upgradepath PASSED for FEDORA-2015-850e89be8b Subject: [Fedora Update] [comment] auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 Subject: rjones's libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 completed Subject: rpmlint PASSED for libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 Subject: Broken dependencies: libguestfs Subject: ABRT report for package gnome-boxes has reached 10 occurrences Subject: [Bug 1269975] svirt very occasionally prevents parallel libvirt [..] Subject: Fedora 'packager' sponsor needed for suanand Subject: sailer's mingw-sqlite-3.10.1.0-1.fc24 failed to build Subject: libguestfs's builds are back to normal in f24 Subject: dchen pushed to ocaml-lwt (el6). "New upstream version 2.2.0." The only consistent thing is there's nothing consistent about them :-/ I'd like to propose a very lightweight "standard" for subject lines of emails. (1) The first word should be the package name which the email concerns in context of that the subjects below needs to be fixed listing all subpackages and exceed TWO KILOBYTE subject header because place the package in front would prevent to see anything else (in case of other packages not exceeding 2048 byte but have subpackages too) Jan 7 05:23:03 mail-gw postfix/cleanup[2859]: 3pbZDQ6RR5z2B: reject: header Subject: [Fedora Update] [CRITPATH] [comment] kf5-kdoctools-5.18.0-1.fc23 kf5-kdbusaddons-5.18.0-1.fc23 kf5-kio-5.18.0-1.fc23 kf5-kjsembed-5.18.0-1.fc23 kf5-ktextwidgets-5.18.0-1.fc23 kf5-kidletime-5. from bastion01.fedoraproject.org[209.132.181.2]; from=to= proto=ESMTP helo=: 5.7.1 Administrative Prohibition (Subject-Header Too Long) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Standard, consistent subject lines for automated emails
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:34:12 + "Richard W.M. Jones"wrote: > Here are a small collection of subject lines of emails sent > automatically to me by various Fedora systems in the past few days: > > Subject: upgradepath PASSED for FEDORA-2015-850e89be8b > Subject: [Fedora Update] [comment] auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 > Subject: rjones's libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 completed > Subject: rpmlint PASSED for libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 > Subject: Broken dependencies: libguestfs > Subject: ABRT report for package gnome-boxes has reached 10 > occurrences Subject: [Bug 1269975] svirt very occasionally prevents > parallel libvirt [..] Subject: Fedora 'packager' sponsor needed for > suanand Subject: sailer's mingw-sqlite-3.10.1.0-1.fc24 failed to build > Subject: libguestfs's builds are back to normal in f24 > Subject: dchen pushed to ocaml-lwt (el6). "New upstream version > 2.2.0." > > The only consistent thing is there's nothing consistent about them :-/ > > I'd like to propose a very lightweight "standard" for subject lines of > emails. ...snip... I think this is a great idea! I'll bring up the subject on the infrastructure list and see what folks there think of it. kevin pgpWFa2xLxycD.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Standard, consistent subject lines for automated emails
On Sat, 2016-01-16 at 12:54 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:34:12 + > "Richard W.M. Jones"wrote: > > > Here are a small collection of subject lines of emails sent > > automatically to me by various Fedora systems in the past few days: > > > > Subject: upgradepath PASSED for FEDORA-2015-850e89be8b > > Subject: [Fedora Update] [comment] auto-buildrequires-1.2-1.fc23 > > Subject: rjones's libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 completed > > Subject: rpmlint PASSED for libguestfs-1.33.1-2.fc24 > > Subject: Broken dependencies: libguestfs > > Subject: ABRT report for package gnome-boxes has reached 10 > > occurrences Subject: [Bug 1269975] svirt very occasionally prevents > > parallel libvirt [..] Subject: Fedora 'packager' sponsor needed for > > suanand Subject: sailer's mingw-sqlite-3.10.1.0-1.fc24 failed to build > > Subject: libguestfs's builds are back to normal in f24 > > Subject: dchen pushed to ocaml-lwt (el6). "New upstream version > > 2.2.0." > > > > The only consistent thing is there's nothing consistent about them :-/ > > > > I'd like to propose a very lightweight "standard" for subject lines of > > emails. > ...snip... > > I think this is a great idea! > > I'll bring up the subject on the infrastructure list and see what folks > there think of it. I'm happy to take requests for the check-compose emails, if a common scheme is decided. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org