We had this exactly discussion in qtwebkit mailing list days ago: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-qt/2011-May/001555.html . It is worth reading through if you are interested in this topic!
We would really like to reduce the noise of "management bugmails", but without a clear good solution for now yet. The "silent" comments suggested by Evan would be a great alternative to the problem if bugzilla could get expanded to support it, imo... On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Eric Seidel <e...@webkit.org> wrote: > > I get a lot of these: > > Revision r86028 cherry-picked into qtwebkit-2.2 with commit 7e1bab1 > > <http://gitorious.org/webkit/qtwebkit/commit/7e1bab1> > > as bug mail. Probably because I'm CC'd on a zillion bugs (and actually > read > > my bug mail). > > > > This is probably the pot calling the kettle black, since I wrote many of > the > > bots which comment daily on bugs... > > ...but, I'm wondering if we can do better? > > Would it better serve the cherry-picker's needs if we instead had a > separate > > server to track revision -> cherry-picks? Or bug ids -> cherry-picks? > (Like > > how the EWS bots store their status on queues.webkit.org and display it > in > > little bubbles on bugs.webkit.org w/o commenting on the bugs.) > > > > I'm strongly supportive of all clients of webkit storing all of their > > bug-related data in bugs.webkit.org. It's better than the alternative > (lots > > of data buried in old Radars, or Chromium bugs, etc.) > > But perhaps someone has a good idea how to reduce unnecessary bugmail? > > I've seen some bug trackers reduce email by allowing you to comment > without sending email. In effect you're just attaching metadata to > the bug without notifying everyone about it. > > However, the comments left by the EWS are intended for the bug authors > and so they probably should continue sending mail. > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > -- --Antonio Gomes
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