Experimenting with Phabricator for reviews

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Fri Jul 14 12:09:10 EDT 2017


On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 07:48:24AM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> > On Jul 14, 2017, at 06:30, Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:52:23 -0700, Sean Farley wrote:
> >> Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> writes:
> >>> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:
> >>>>> On 2017-07-10 22:00, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> >>>> Ugh. Looks way too chatty/cluttered for my taste so far (I'm mostly
> >>>> lurking the list).
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm likely going to unsubscribe Mercurial-devel, if it stays like that...
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, I've found this to be pretty ugly as well; though I don't think
> >>> it's a function of chatty-ness but rather lack of threading :-(
> >>
> >> Another thing that I'd like: can we drop the "[Differential] [Foo
> >> blah]"? It seems mostly useless information and wastes precious
> >> horizontal real estate.
> >
> > Agrees, unfortunately. It's too much for casual contributors. I've set up
> > filtering rule to blackhole these emails so I can stay sane.
>
> It hasn't helped that the list has been extremely active this week. I took most of a few days off and too was overwhelmed at the volume. Things should hopefully quiet down next week after the freeze.
>
> Although, given the volume of patches these days, I do question if splitting up the mailing list might be fruitful. We could establish a new list for the fire hose of review activity. The dev list could potentially be just for general discussion. Or we could potentially send just the "new review" emails to the dev list. I'm not convinced that we should do this. Just thought I'd throw an idea out there.

If there's a way to get just "new review" messages from phabricator
into the list, let's do that. I _do not_ want us to stop notifying the
list of phabricator reviews, because then people that don't watch
phabricator have no visibility into changes happening there, and we
split our community.

(So far I'm not at all happy with Phabricator and how it's split the
review load in an awkward way - for this reviewer, it's been a clear negative.)

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