TheN I misunderstood you. In your mail of 01.46 today you write
>> Do you mean the messages concerning the homepage? I really like the idea of publishing such a short summary when changes are made -- especially because the commit messages are included too, and I try to actually write something useful in them. Without these mails, would you then go check the homepage? << > I think you misunderstand why I started sending out the messages. > It is > very common to send out such messages when developing free > software, and > their main purpose is *code review* -- when I am following a software > project I look at the changes to the code to understand it and more > importantly, to understand the intensions of the developers. Currently I am satisfied to read the highlevel discussions on this list. I am not going to look at the code, at least for now, so the commit messages are just more spam mails I have to delete. -- Janus -- Janus Den 22/02/2008 kl. 9.36 skrev Martin Geisler: > Janus Dam Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well with all the messages and information you guys generate >> anyway, I >> don't need change messages to figure out that you are making >> progress. >> >> I wouldn't look at the homepage every day anyway, so I don't use the >> messages as a reminder. > > I think you misunderstand why I started sending out the messages. > It is > very common to send out such messages when developing free > software, and > their main purpose is *code review* -- when I am following a software > project I look at the changes to the code to understand it and more > importantly, to understand the intensions of the developers. > > So by making each change only a link away, I hoped that more people > would look at the code and comment on it. Or at the very least that > people would read the stuff we write in the commit messages. > > > The idea of putting the messages on the front page of viff.dk was born > out of two things: > > * It was easy to do since the repository provides RSS and Atom > feeds :-) > > * It gives people an easy way to see that the project is alive. > > -- > Martin Geisler > _______________________________________________ > viff-devel mailing list (http://viff.dk/) > [email protected] > http://lists.viff.dk/listinfo.cgi/viff-devel-viff.dk _______________________________________________ viff-devel mailing list (http://viff.dk/) [email protected] http://lists.viff.dk/listinfo.cgi/viff-devel-viff.dk
