Re: [cp-patches] Re: [commit-cp] Reply-To set to classpath-patches

[Michael Koch]

Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2005 03:18 schrieb Archie Cobbs:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > There are not many people actually reading commit-classpath since
> > it only carries (a large volume) of automatic emails (mainly from
> > cvs commits). Replies might not always be read by everybody
> > interested in a change. So I set the reply-to for this list to
> > address@hidden so discussion about patches really
> > happens on that list.
>
> Maybe it's just me, but I don't see much point in having separate
> lists for commit-classpath and classpath-patches. Seems like they
> have the same customers. Plus the volume of commit-classpath is
> strictly bounded by the volume of classpath-patches (because we
> require posts to the former before each commit) and so by only
> subscribing to classpath-patches you're only changing the amount of
> Classpath email you receive by a small constant factor (ie., <= 2).
>
> It's also seems a little silly to see posts to classpath-patches
> that say "I'm checking this in" with a patch followed immediately
> by the post to commit-classpath with the checkin and URLs to the
> exact same patch. If there were one list, the first email wouldn't
> be necessary.
>
> Just random complaints, it's not really annoying enough to actually
> do anything about it just yet :-)

I find it very useful to have both lists. People who don't need 
commit-classpath are not forced to subscribe to it. I use 
commit-classpath to check what patches got really commited to 
classpath and which got forgot. This is really useful when merging 
stuff to GCJ.


Michael
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