[Mesa-dev] Thoughts after hitting 100 merge requests?

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Axel Davy (2019-01-12 09:40:40)
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure the promise "1 mail per pull request" is working well.
> For example, taking one recent pull request
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/105
> 
> I didn't receive anything, nor
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2019-January/thread.html
> yet.
> 
> I received some mails with [MR] in the title with two lines indicating merge
> requests, but that seems to be for a minority of the requests.
> 
> I guess the system is not automated right now.
> 
> I think there needs to be an automated system, and that it should look pretty
> close to what a cover-letter for a mail serie should look like, that is:
> . The global stat diffs of the merge requests (which files are affected, how
> many modifications, etc)
> . The summary of the request
> . All the patch titles
> 
> I don't want to go open all merge requests in my browser to get that
> information.
> So far I only went check the list of gitlab merge requests 3 times, whereas I
> go through my mails several times a day.
> 
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Axel Davy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/01/2019 17:57, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> 
>     All,
> 
>     The mesa project has now hit 100 merge requests (36 are still open).  I
>     (and I'm sure others) would be curious to hear people's initial thoughts on
>     the process.  What's working well?  What's not working?  Is it total fail
>     and should we go back to mailing lists?
> 
>     --Jason
> 
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> 

Another option, which I find much better, is to just subscribe to the MRs for
all of mesa in gitlab. I've then set up my mail client to sort all of those
mails and all of mesa-dev into the view so there is zero gap between the mailing
list and gitlab.

Dylan
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