[Savannah-help-public] Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Reviewing changes

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Is it possible to clarify this request?
I'm not sure I understand it.

-- 
Sylvain

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:07:21AM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> [ 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.