[gst-devel] CVS mailer

[David I. Lehn]

* Erik Walthinsen <omega at temple-baptist.com> [20020212 19:03]:
> We need to deal with the CVS mailer soon.  A lot of people dislike the
> current mailer because it a) sends lots of mail, and b) sends lots of
> *large* mail.  There is no way to determine which changes were committed
> as a set besides manually grouping related mail together.
> 
> What I would like to see is a return to the older commitprep/newlog
> script that's still in CVSROOT/, modified to include URLs for each diff
> that point to the cvsweb interface.  This will group diffs per-commit,
> eliminating the large number of mails, and reduce the total size of each
> mail to a manageable amount.
> 

I like getting the diffs inline.  Pretty much 0 chance of me making the
effort to see them otherwise.  Grouping commits would be great.  (Though
I seem to recall it looked hard to make that syncmail script do it...
prove me wrong. ;)

We could have two lists, one just with filenames/links and one with
verbose diffs.  The grouping thing would be nice for both.

-dave
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Computer Engineering Graduate @ Virginia Tech in sunny Blacksburg, VA