[coreboot] separate mailling list for gerrit mails?

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Mon Mar 12 03:19:41 CET 2012


On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:04:19PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this came up on IRC again, but I think the issue requires wider discussion:
> Several people asked if gerrit mails can be moved to a separate mailing
> list to reduce the "mechanic" noise.
> 
> We're highly flexible there, so we can keep it like it is, reduce the
> number of mail types, send different types to different lists, ...
> 
> One proposal was to move all gerrit mail to coreboot-gerrit@ or so.
> A variant of that could be to move all gerrit mail to coreboot-gerrit@
> except for the "change merged to master" mails, so people have an easier
> overview on what happens in our main branch.
> 
> So asking generally: Do you like it the way it is, or do you think it
> should change, and how?

I'd prefer if they were on a separate email list.  Or, if on the same
list, to be just the most important messages.  Another thing that
would help would be to shorten the subject line - the most important
parts (the description of the patch) should be at the beginning of the
subject.

Cheers,
-Kevin




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