I think this proposal stores less bits on hard drives but makes the reviewer's job more complicated (they have to sync to get the review changes). I prefer the existing mechanism. If there were some way to tell the mailing list not to archive attachments, perhaps that would be a good compromise?
On 2006-10-12, at 15:07 EDT, Jim Grandy wrote: > I just remembered we had a possibly-complementary proposal on the > table as well: > > Modify the review tools to check the changeset in to Subversion > instead of sending it as an email attachment. > > So svn-review would do a > > > svn import patch.ptw.xPLr.tgz http://svn.openlaszlo.org/ > openlaszlo/patches/patch.ptw.xPLr.tgz > > And add a link to the patch to the review email: > > http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/patch.ptw.xPLr.tgz > > The argument is that we would then be storing the patch once, > rather than transporting and storing it for each member of > whichever list it goes to. And yes, these files would live on in > Subversion, but that's arguably better than living on in many, many > email archives. > > jim > > On Oct 12, 2006, at 11:45 AM, P T Withington wrote: > >> We've had a few complaints about the 'review mail' noise on the >> laszlo-dev mailing list, especially the large attachments that go >> with the review submission. If no one objects, I plan to create a >> new list <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for review mail (and >> ask that reviewers direct their review requests there). If members >> of this list want to continue to receive review mail, they will need >> to join the new list. >> >> I'll send mail to the list when the new one is set up and ready to >> accept subscriptions. >> >> P T Withington >> OpenLazslo.ORG <http://www.openlaszlo.org> >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype:ptwithy aim:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Laszlo-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev > _______________________________________________ Laszlo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev
