[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Git development moved to github

[Ronny Chevalier]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Filipe Brandenburger
<filbranden at google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Ronny Chevalier
> <chevalier.ronny at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at google.com> wrote:
>>> Another downside of adding comments to the commits is that e-mail
>>> notifications are not sent for them (I just noticed that while lurking
>>> on #164, I got e-mails for the main thread but not for Lennart's
>>> comments on commit 5f33680.)
>>
>> Yes you need to specify for each PR you are interested in that you
>> want to receive mail notifications for the PR... (I think it's the
>> subscribe button at the bottom)
>
> Sorry I should have explained myself better...

No I understood, but what I meant is that in addition of "watching", I
think you have to subscribe to a particular PR to receive mail
notifications for the comments on the commits, or maybe I'm wrong and
there is no way to get mail notifications for this, which is weird I
think...

>
> I "watch" systemd/systemd as a whole, so I get all notifications
> without having to ask for them individually...
>
> On #164, I *did* get an e-mail for @zonque's comment ("Also, you
> forgot to add the new files to Makefile.am and po/LINGUAS...") but I
> did *not* get e-mails for @poettering's comments on commit 5f33680
> ("Hmm, can you please change the commit msg to say this is the catalog
> translation? ...") and the replies on that thread (@s8321414 replied
> "@poettering How can I do this using git?" etc.)
>
> I think that's one more symptom of the fact that, for GitHub, the
> commit itself doesn't directly belong to the PR, and so does not
> belong to the project either...
>
> The e-mail notifications are not really a great big deal (still, they
> are annoying), but I think it's just one more sign that adding
> comments to the commits will end up causing trouble in the future...
>
> Cheers,
> Filipe