From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 16:54:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF98A1065679 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:54:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFFF8FC23 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q6HGrrcY077872; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:53:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q6HGrqxY077869; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:53:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:53:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Eitan Adler In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:53:53 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, David Magda Subject: Re: The MFC process... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:54:01 -0000 On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 17 July 2012 09:28, Warren Block wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >>> On 17 July 2012 05:50, David Magda wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, July 17, 2012 02:10, Eitan Adler wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Of interest to me: if it could be limited to just the commits I made >>>>> and optionally show me the log message and diff it would be very >>>>> helpful. >>>>> >>>>> On a general note: be careful with any level of automation with this >>>>> script though. Sometimes there are good reasons that a commit wasn't >>>>> MFCed. >>> >>> >>> >>>> A lot of messages have a "MFC after" note on them, so the the developer/s >>>> in question already know which commits are good candidates for bringing >>>> over to STABLE. It may simply be that they could use a reminder on them. >>> >>> >>> Just to add: developers get an automated email at the "MFC after" time >>> reminding them to MFC. >> >> >> But only once. It would be nice if it was like PR notifications, once a >> week. > > Please no! If this is the case, it should be an option. I don't expect it to happen. But right now, there's only the initial mail that the MFC is due, and no reminder afterwards. We have the open PR mails once-weekly; MFCs are at least as important. Come to think of it, entering PRs for past-due MFCs could be a way to do that with the existing systems.