[gPXE-devel] Introducing: commit emails!

[Joshua Oreman]

2010/5/25 Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski at gmail.com>:
>> I've enabled commit emails (sent to this list) for commits to any
>> branch of gpxe.git and gpxe-staging.git. The emails use a
>> significantly tweaked version of the default git commit email hook.
>
> Cool! Having done that it shouldn't be too hard to also send the
> commits to CIA and get a CIA bot on #etherboot
> I could look into it if you don't mind having the commit announced on
> the channel.

That'd be great :-)

>> I'm happy to modify this process in response to your comments, so
>> please feel free to reply with any suggestions. Things we should
>> probably consider:
>> - Do we want a separate list for commit emails? (i.e., will YOU be
>> annoyed if you get them on this list?)
>
> I would prefer so.

Setting one up now.

>> - Do we want commit emails for personal repositories? The Summer of
>> Code students will be doing interesting work.
>
> I think sending them to CIA would be nice (maybe getting a separate
> bot for #etherboot-gsoc if you don't want to see too much commit spam
> on #etherboot :). Not sure about the mailing list.

I think it'd be fine to send them to #etherboot, but maybe not to the
mailing list.

>> - Are there formatting changes that would make the emails easier to read?
>
> Setting From: to the commiter/author could be useful if someone
> decides to respond. Or maybe just adding them to CC.

The trouble is that you get one email per push of a branch, which may
have multiple commits by multiple authors. I can have it Cc everyone
involved, though.

-- Josh