Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen
<bjoern.michaelsen at 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 can kill this spam.
>
> so collecting the feedback so far, here is a proposal:
>
> - move the gerrit mails to a separate list

And I re-iterate my earlier question: what is left on the dev ML ?
chatter without patches ?

>   - since we now have an opt-in channel, we also mail about comments to changes
>     on that list, not only if there is a new proposal

I would suggest to find a way to filter-put auto generated comment,
due to gerrit (like 'has been rebased'... and most of the gerrit
buildbot generated one... except the final 'result' one)

> - in addition, aim for a daily digest to the dev-list

If one want a daily digest of a list, one can subscribe in that mode
to that list.. no need to inflict one on everybody by default.

Norbert

PS: the idea of being able to post a comment in gerrit via the ML
seems interesting. Not sure how to do that best and spam-free... but
still that would be a nice improvement to the ML workflow (and make
the [PATCH] message generated by gerrit more relevant... and in turn
make it compeling to keep them in the regular dev ML