On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 02:15:21PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> The alternative I suggested to Joseph yesterday was a separate mailing list
> for all the personal and vendor commits. But I think that would need a
> change to the hooks infrastructure.
Would that solve it? We have around 7500 to 8000 trunk commits a year
lately, so on the trunk+release branch mailing list it would be say 12000
mails a year, but if there are say 30 long lived devel/personal/vendor
branches that track trunk that would already mean 240000 mails alone in
those merge commits. Sure, for branches tracking release branches it will
be less than that. As a random sample, I've picked a random gcc trunk test
added in June and it got merged into 5 tracking branches later on 6 branches
tracking release branches. That was with svn (but that one sent one mail
per merge, not hundreds), but git encourages that people push their devel
branches upstream.
Jakub
