Errata: I meant 'launchpad-canonical-reviewers' not 'launchpad-reviewers'. The former is a private list, the latter a genuine LP list.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Robert Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > So, launchpad-reviewers is subscribed w/mail to every trunk branch we have. > > Its also the team that code reviewers are in. > > bzr has recently refactored its subscriptions to give folk a little > more control, and I'd like to do the same for LP; > > The -reviewers internal list is a cause of backscatter for some > reviewers, and AFAICT it has two uses: > - folk can choose not to be subscribed to it (and only get direct > notifications) > - we get an archive > > For the latter purpose, google indexes the merge proposals (it may > lose historic ones but only because we hide their urls; easy fixed). > > For the former, I think removing the contact address *and* > unsubscribing the team from trunk branches would allow folk to be a > reviewer and not get every single mail that comes through... > > we can create a new team 'launchpad-codereview-subscribers' which has > a subscription to all series branches, with mail turned on, and let > folk join that if they want. > > These three changes will: > - eliminate the remaining source of backscatter > - while still allowing folk to get the mail or not as they choose. > > Alternatively, we can keep one team but replace the contact address > with an LP hosted team, which will also allow folk to be > subscribed-or-not but avoid the backscatter problem (because if the > mail is accepted by LP it will be accepted by the list). > > -Rob > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
