Content of gnucash-patches/gnucash-changes

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri May 31 10:04:49 EDT 2013


On May 31, 2013, at 1:52 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> My work on the transition to git accidentally brought up a small issue regarding the two 
> mailing lists we have the record changes in the repositories: gnucash-changes and gnucash-
> patches.
> 
> gnucash-changes publishes all commits with full details (diff of all files that got changed)
> gnucash-patches instead only publishes summaries of changes (effectively only the commit 
> messages)
> 
> I didn't pay attention when setting up the mail notifications on git and accidentally swapped 
> these. Looking back I think that happened because gnucash-patches naturally makes me 
> think of the full diffs and gnucash-changes more of summaries.
> 
> I decided to do a a little poll regarding these two lists, to determine how to handle them in 
> the (git-only) future:
> 
> 1. Which lists are you subscribed to ?
>  a. gnucash-changes
>  b. gnucash-patches
>  c. both
>  d. none

gnucash-patches-digest
> 
> 2. If you're only subscribed to one, why that one ?

I only need a daily summary of commit messages. Anything else I can get from Github/Trac as and when needed.

> 
> 3. Do you think gnucash needs two lists ? Why yes or why no ?

I suppose that if someone wants to review every patch as it happens that changes is useful. That's not something
I want to make time for, though. I'd say that combining them into a single list that has both the commit message 
and the patch would be OK except that it would make digests awfully long and hard to read.

> 4. For the future:
>  a. We should keep the two list as they are now:
>     gnucash-changes should have the detailed logs
>     gnucash-patches should have the summaries
>  b. We should keep two lists, but swap the contents:
>     gnucash-patches should have the detailed logs
>     gnucash-changes should have the summaries
>  c. I think we only need one list with detailed logs
>  d. I think we only need one list with summaries

It doesn't matter to me.

Regards,
John Ralls


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