[gst-devel] gstreamer: Wim Taymans : Add message to request a state change

[Edward Hervey]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 17:09 +0100, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Edward Hervey [mailto:bilboed at gmail.com]
> > Sent: den 19 februari 2009 10:48
> > To: Discussion of the development of GStreamer
> > Subject: Re: [gst-devel] gstreamer: Wim Taymans : Add message to
> > request a state change
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   This looks really neat. A few comments though.
> > 
> >   If the commit is not done to the master branch, is it possible to
> > have
> > that in the subject ? Something like the following:
> >   "<module> [<branchname>]: <author> : <subject>"
> > 
> >   What happens for gigantic push with plenty of commits ? I did one a
> > day or two ago in gst-plugins-bad.
> > 
> >   It might be better to have a message-only (i.e. everything down to
> > '---') version for the current commit list, and use the ones with
> > patches on another mailing list. In fact... I'm wondering if we
> > shouldn't create new mailing lists now that we've switched to git, I
> > can
> > have them created within the day on freedesktop.org. Something like
> > gst-commits at ... and gst-commits-full at ...
> > 
> >     Edward
> 
> Do we really need the author in the subject? In most cases it will
> be the same as the committer, which then will equal the sender of 
> the mail, and in any case the author is mentioned a couple of lines 
> into the body of the mail.

  I think the consensus, also with discussions on IRC, is that the
author name in the subject is pointless. I'll therefore remove it.

   Edward

> 
> //Peter
> 
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