On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 09:36 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > "At least in my understanding, firehosing information from gerrit to the > ML was not only intended for the advanced reviewer crowd, but also for > relative newcomers to the project, where the idea is that the discussion > of other people's patches on the ML gave them a sense of how we treat > those newcomers' patches, give them opportunity to pick up advice by > osmosis, etc.
Yep - there is clearly value in that :-) assuming we're kind and helpful to newbies. My concern was that so much of the mail was utterly banal - these: "+1 but not merged" with no concievably useful comment content, embedded in a huge mess of a mail with duplicated information etc. etc. is clearly just noise. > "But anyway, you win a little, you loose a little, there's no setup > perfect for all." Perhaps having a check-box / setting somewhere to 'send this comment to the list' for when we did a substantive review I guess; or ... some other magic way of both de-cruftifying the E-mails down to just the useful content or ... :-) Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice