Send patches for new/outgoing changeset notifications (RFC)

[David M. Carr]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2012, at 3:17 AM, Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> The notifications about new or outgoing changesets sent to this list
>> (and to the crew mailinglist for new changesets in crew) currently
>> consist of a single mail with the summary of each change and a link
>> to hgweb showing the full change.
>>
>> In a two different projects that switched to Mercurial I was asked,
>> if I could provide patches, too, which I implemented this week. The
>> patches are sent using the patchbomb extension and are in the same
>> thread as the initial notification mail.
>>
>> An example for the result:
>>
>> dive4elements/flys at 4250: 8 new changesets:
>> http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/dive4elements-commits/2012-October/000163.html
>>  [PATCH 1 of 8] Convert GaugeOverviewInfoService into RiverInfoService:
>>  http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/dive4elements-commits/2012-October/000164.html
>>  [PATCH 2 of 8] Change Servlet config for RiverInfoService
>>  http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/dive4elements-commits/2012-October/000165.html
>>  ...
>>
>> Is there an interest to have the same for this list?
>> Or is this only useful if there is a separate mailing list to not
>> disturb the normal discussion happening here too much?
>
> That'd add enough noise that looks like real patches to review (but wouldn't be) that I'd rather not.

Agreed.  Especially since in many cases, the patches that would be
sent would be ones that relatively recently were already on the list
for review.

>
>>
>> The shell script I use to generate the push notifications is now
>> published at http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/toolbox/
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
>>
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