Re: Commit fest 2017-01 will begin soon!

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:

> On 2/1/17 10:39 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Many thanks to you for running the show. I think it might be okay if
>>> one consolidated mail is sent for all the patches that are marked
>>> "Returned with Feedback" or "Rejected" or "Moved to next CF". OTOH,
>>> there is some value in sending a separate mail for each patch so that
>>> people can argue on the decision by CFM for one particular patch, but
>>> not sure if it worth.
>>>
>>
>> People tend to look at emails they are directly on in CC, that's why I
>> prefer sending individual emails.
>>
>
> BTW, the app also sends email notifications to anyone named on a patch (or
> at least I got notifications). Having a human spend time doing that by hand
> seems pretty silly.
>
> Since the app also knows about the email threads, presumably it could send
> notifications to relevant threads as well.
> --

Yes, it would be trivial to have the app post a "status changed from x to
y" message when that is done.

But IIRC we did discuss this around the time the app was dpeloyed and
decided we did not want this. But such decisions can of course always be
re-visited :)

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