[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Reviewing changes

[Yavor Doganov]

[ Sylvain, this is about a request to change the commit notifications
  setup for the "emacs" project. ]

At Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:05:26 -0500,
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> > The log_accum.pl script used by Savannah by default sends all of the
> > changes (summary + commit message + diffs) in one email even if the
> > commit touches files in different directories (like [1]).  Note that
> > with the recent size limit that was set up for lists.gnu.org by the
> > GNU sysadmins, some messages are not delivered if the diffs are too
> > large.
> 
> > The Emacs case is special (two separate lists and single-file chanages
> > even if the files were committed enbloc), and probably was requested
> > by the maintainers long time ago for consistency with the policy that
> > was in place until recently.
> 
> It was a mistake.  Could you arrange to fix it: use for Emacs the
> "single email per commit" script used by default (containing
> summary+message+diff), and send it to the emacs-diffs mailing list.
> We can keep the emacs-commits mailing list unchanged.

Just FYI, RMS already asked the sysadmins to treat commit
notifications for all projects as special case and not to impose size
limit (for Emacs, Miles' merges or Carsten's Org mode syncs sometimes
will not show up on the list, I guess).

There is also a request to modify the script to generate a message
without the diff if it is too large.