Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 19:18 -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: I fully agree with this sentiment -- the dev-list should be taylored to be inviting to a wide audience of volunteer contributors and not only to those hardcore contributors who are full-time sponsored developers. ... So, is there

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-07 Thread David Tardon
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:15:41AM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: Don't u consider sending nothing to report spam in a way? On May 2, 2013 9:42 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org wrote: Le 02/05/2013 07:49, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : If there is nothing to report is it

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-07 Thread Philipp Riemer
Hey all, so in my eyes the consensus here is the following: (1) we want to get informed about new stuff to - either react/ review it as a regular developer or - to keep up with a topic as sparetime contributor (2) too many automaticly sent mails blur the view for important messages and

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-07 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 05/01/2013 09:33 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: Opinions? My initial reaction to the gerrit web UI is it sucks. Take, e.g., comments made directly in the source code: On a change's overview page, you can see that there /are/ comments to certain files of a patch set, but to actually see

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-07 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Stephan Bergmann sberg...@redhat.com wrote: On 05/01/2013 09:33 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: Opinions? if you happen to be logged into gerrit, the file you looked at is automatically marked as reviewed You can turn that off on a 'diff' view, click on

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-07 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:13:53PM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: But upon yet further reflection, it appears to me that mail does hit a sweet spot there. Like with git commits, where in principle one can stay informed via git fetch/git log. But, at least to me, it appears way more

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-04 Thread Chris Sherlock
On Thu, 2 May 2013 18:49:30 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michael...@canonical.com wrote: so collecting the feedback so far, here is a proposal: - move the gerrit mails to a separate list - since we now have an opt-in channel, we also mail about comments to changes on that list, not

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:16:51AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: And then people will cross-post, Why? I dont see anyone posting to the gerrit list directly at all. If you want you comment on that do it in a comment on gerrit (send via email or whatever). This

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Thorsten I think as well you forgot a useful feature being able to reply to the patch sets through an email as I had previously mentioned. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:16:51AM +0200,

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Jonathan Aquilina wrote: Thorsten I think as well you forgot a useful feature being able to reply to the patch sets through an email as I had previously mentioned. No. I think that's a distraction, and in any case not core to the decision. Cheers, -- Thorsten signature.asc Description:

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: Ok - but then I see even less reason for another list, if it is read-only. Gerrit already lets me get email for any number of events, with filters all. So if additional action is

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Bjoern, Bjoern Michaelsen píše v St 01. 05. 2013 v 21:33 +0200: So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing to kill the mail spammage? Before we go ahead with any actions here, let me explain why I think it is good to have some sort of mails going to the ML, and what

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Robinson, Robinson Tryon píše v Pá 03. 05. 2013 v 10:31 -0400: As an alternative, we could start by providing easy instructions on how to filter mail from gerrit. If I just point all mail from ger...@gerrit.tdf-server-blah to /read/me/later, does that cover it all? Is there a good,

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:40:42PM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Ok - but then I see even less reason for another list, if it is read-only. Gerrit already lets me get email for any number of events, with filters all. So if additional action is necessary anyway - which subscribing to a

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 04:58:13PM +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Before we go ahead with any actions here, let me explain why I think it is good to have some sort of mails going to the ML, and what I think is broken at the moments. No worries, Im drowned with work and will not suddenly

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Bjoern, Bjoern Michaelsen píše v Pá 03. 05. 2013 v 18:19 +0200: Well, yeah. And when we wait half a day, we could also collect all the unpushed fixes in _one_ mail and not start one thread for each. We could go fancy and call this mail digest. ;) Digest with N patches in a lump kills

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:28:47PM +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Digest with N patches in a lump kills the possibility to scan the content quickly, so wouldn't work for anybody, and would be just a waste. Hmm, it certainly would work for me, so I dont assume that to be a general statement.

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: So removing those who are employed to work on LibreOffice -- which I expect to be capable to set up their mail filters with a second list or with a gerrit watch Hi Bjoern, well not so fast with taking away the right to opine - I would rather like us to come to a

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hey Bjoern, you write: That is mostly true, but having a list has some additional advantages: - Its an archive - Its searchable and discoverable in google I would hope this is true also for gerrit? ;) - Some people dont wanna learn about gerrit and a mailing list is something that they

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-03 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:57:46AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: So removing those who are employed to work on LibreOffice -- which I expect to be capable to set up their mail filters with a second list or with a gerrit watch well not so fast with taking away

RE: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Winfried Donkers
I would be happy with a daily digest. Next question to ask though with daily digests how many times a day will they be sent out? would they be sent out every hour every few hours once to twice a day? I had once a day in my mind, but every 8 hours might be better, given the world wide

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 02/05/2013 07:49, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : If there is nothing to report is it necessary to send anything out at all? Perhaps: if you do not receive anything, you do not know if there nothing to receive or if there is a problem on the sender side or on the receiver side or if the link

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Albert Thuswaldner
Hi, On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michael...@canonical.com wrote: So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing to kill the mail spammage? If so: - could this be mitigated by a separate gerrit-patches mailing list? - could this be mitigated by a

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Don't u consider sending nothing to report spam in a way? On May 2, 2013 9:42 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org wrote: Le 02/05/2013 07:49, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : If there is nothing to report is it necessary to send anything out at all? Perhaps: if you do not receive

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:33:49PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: Looking at: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on there. As the writer of mail forward I have been repeatedly asked if we can kill this spam. I

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Thomas Arnhold
On 01.05.2013 21:33, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing to kill the mail spammage? If so: - could this be mitigated by a separate gerrit-patches mailing list? - could this be mitigated by a daily digest of gerrit news? - could this be

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 10:01:12PM +0200, Mat M wrote: Yes, IMO, the goal is to have an overview of what was commited, IMO, no, it is not. It is about seeing what is proposed to come in *before* it does. To see stuff after the fact we have *another* mailing list, namely

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Matteo Casalin
Hi, On Thu, 02 May 2013 06:58:50 +0200 Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org wrote: Hi, Le 01/05/2013 21:33, Bjoern Michaelsen a écrit : [...] So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing to kill the mail spammage? If so: [...] Opinions? Even

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
The dev-ML is to discuss code. code come as patch, and preferably as gerrit patch... so seing the patch that are proposed via gerrit is the core function of the ML, just like before gerrit they where posted to the ML . and yes I agree with Bjoern that the 'pos-facto' email are the less

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Norbert Thiebaud wrote: The dev-ML is to discuss code. code come as patch, and preferably as gerrit patch... so seing the patch that are proposed via gerrit is the core function of the ML, just like before gerrit they where posted to the ML . Yup. If we remove all the [PATCH] from the ML,

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Thomas Arnhold
On 02.05.2013 17:39, Thorsten Behrens wrote: If we remove all the [PATCH] from the ML, what is left ? a dev-discuss list ? It is already now the case that there is a disconnect between discussing code, or a concrete problem, and the subsequent gerrit patch submission (case in point:

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
What would be nice i think is being able to respond to the patch set which is on gerrit via email, like you can do with bugzilla no? On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Arnhold thomas-l...@arnhold.orgwrote: On 02.05.2013 17:39, Thorsten Behrens wrote: If we remove all the [PATCH] from the

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:33:49PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on there. As the writer of mail forward I have been repeatedly asked if we can kill this spam. so collecting the feedback so far, here is a proposal: - move the

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:39:56PM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Devil's advocate question: with that two-list proposal, where to discuss a given patch? ;) IMHO wherever the patch was proposed: - If proposed on gerrit, it should be discussed on gerrit - If proposed on the dev-ML, it should be

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Mat M
Hello all, Le Thu, 02 May 2013 10:28:57 +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu a écrit: On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 10:01:12PM +0200, Mat M wrote: Yes, IMO, the goal is to have an overview of what was commited, IMO, no, it is not. It is about seeing what is proposed to come in Well,

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michael...@canonical.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:33:49PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on there. As the writer of mail forward I have been repeatedly asked if we

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 02:31:21PM -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: And I re-iterate my earlier question: what is left on the dev ML ? chatter without patches ? Everything but gerrit-patches. I e.g. filter out the gerrit-mails and there stays enough on the list: Manual patches, ESC

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:39:56PM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Devil's advocate question: with that two-list proposal, where to discuss a given patch? ;) IMHO wherever the patch was proposed: - If proposed on gerrit, it should be discussed on gerrit - If

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-02 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:16:51AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: That means, for everyone not wanting to miss on relevant development, to subscribe to two lists? It depends. You would need to subscribe to both lists, if you do not want to miss out relevant development _by_ _mail_. You

Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, Looking at: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on there. As the writer of mail forward I have been repeatedly asked if we can kill this spam. I fully agree with this sentiment -- the dev-list should be taylored to be

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Mat M
Hello, Le Wed, 01 May 2013 21:33:49 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michael...@canonical.com a écrit: Hi, Looking at: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on there. As the writer of mail forward I have been

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Björn, Bjoern Michaelsen schrieb: Hi, Looking at: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on there. As the writer of mail forward I have been repeatedly asked if we can kill this spam. I fully agree with this sentiment

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michael...@canonical.com wrote: depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on [the dev list] As the writer of mail forward I have been repeatedly asked if we can kill this spam. I fully agree with this sentiment -- the

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi, Le 01/05/2013 21:33, Bjoern Michaelsen a écrit : [...] So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing to kill the mail spammage? If so: [...] Opinions? Even if I am able to filter gerrit mails, I agree that a separate gerrit-patches mailing list would be better.

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
+1 to JBF's suggestion usualy when i get these emails I instantly delete them. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org wrote: Hi, Le 01/05/2013 21:33, Bjoern Michaelsen a écrit : [...] So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing

RE: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Winfried Donkers
So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing to kill the mail spammage? If so: - could this be mitigated by a separate gerrit-patches mailing list? - could this be mitigated by a daily digest of gerrit news? - could this be mitigated by other means? I would be happy with

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Next question to ask though with daily digests how many times a day will they be sent out? would they be sent out every hour every few hours once to twice a day? On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Winfried Donkers w.donk...@dci-electronics.nl wrote: So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Next question to ask though with daily digests how many times a day will they be sent out? Every few hours definitely, except on Mondays of odd-numbered weeks when the daily digest should be sent just twice. And if there is nothing to digest, they should say so, Nothing to report. --tml

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
If there is nothing to report is it necessary to send anything out at all? On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Tor Lillqvist t...@iki.fi wrote: Next question to ask though with daily digests how many times a day will they be sent out? Every few hours definitely, except on Mondays of

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Tor Lillqvist
If there is nothing to report is it necessary to send anything out at all? Ah. Good point, I would never have thought of that! --tml ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

2013-05-01 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
What is the overall concensus here. Daily digests of a given frequency and if there is nothing dont send out anything? On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Tor Lillqvist t...@iki.fi wrote: If there is nothing to report is it necessary to send anything out at all? Ah. Good point, I would never