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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