Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> writes: > On May 17, Michael Sperber wrote: >> >> So I'd like to propose sending one e-mail per commit instead, where >> the Subject line carries the first line of the commit message. >> (We've been doing things this way with Scheme 48 and XEmacs, FWIW - >> works wonderfully.) [...] > > To put things in perspective, looking at the scheme48 and the xemacs > commit history, I see about 50 commits total in the last two months. > PLT had that number of commits in the last two days, and about 900 > commits in the last two months. Even if the switch made it be twice > busier, that's still 10 times the messages you'd get from the other > two.
Yes, but the point is not the number of messages but rather the amount of data, which would stay about the same. The point I was making with XEmacs and Scheme 48 is that development often gets done in largish pushes which results in many e-mails that get sent at once - not a problem for us. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
