Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

[Jan Holesovsky]

Hi Bjoern,

Bjoern Michaelsen píše v Pá 03. 05. 2013 v 18:19 +0200:

> Well, yeah. And when we wait half a day, we could also collect all the unpushed
> fixes in _one_ mail and not start one thread for each. We could go fancy and
> call this mail "digest". ;)

Digest with N patches in a lump kills the possibility to scan the
content quickly, so wouldn't work for anybody, and would be just a
waste.

> I dont see the need to track the status of patches via flaky "PUSHED" "PATCH"
> subjects of emails -- at least for patches on gerrit, gerrit has a much better
> way of keeping track of things as it tracks and watches the repository directly.

Those who merge most of the patches should decide what works for them
best I believe.  Definitely it is not me, so I actually apologize for
promoting my workflow, but it's easy to find out using

OLD="" ; COUNT=0 ; git log | grep 'Reviewed-by:' | sort | while read NAME ; do if [ "$OLD" != "$NAME" ] ; then echo "$COUNT $OLD" ; OLD="$NAME" ; COUNT=0 ; fi ; COUNT=$(($COUNT+1)) ; done | sort -r -n

that the 10 most active are Caolán, Fridrich, Thomas, Michael S.,
Norbert, Miklos, David T., Tor, Andras, Olivier.

Also consider the long tail here - how do you want to grow the amount of
people who merge patches, when it will be hidden in gerrit only or a
different / not default mailing list?

All the best,
Kendy