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Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2016 02:23:55 +1000
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alphons van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl>, Kevin Golding <kpg@caomhin.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: blanket portmgr approval vs. non-fixing changes
Message-ID:  <cc7333ac-0582-2012-002b-f0f9a8fa0e8e@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160628110322.GA51760@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>
References:  <201606272021.u5RKLVhQ057899@slippy.cwsent.com> <op.yjrc3knw57n2so@thoth.home> <20160628110322.GA51760@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>

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On 28/06/2016 9:03 PM, Alphons van Werven wrote:
> Maintainers are already notified by e-mail of commits resulting from PRs
> because they are put on the CC list. Maybe it's just me, but I think it
> would be very nice if maintainers were *always* automagically notified of
> *any* commits to their ports, including those subject to blanket approval.

Good idea, as long as people could opt-in/out as appropriate.

> With any luck, such notifications are received in time to prevent (or at
> least limit) wasted time such as in the above case. Moreover, keeping
> maintainers informed also eliminates having to wonder "Ey, what's this
> 'ere then?" the next time they look at their ports. And finally, I'd
> surmise it would also help keeping maintainers abreast of developments in
> the ports infrastructure in general.
> 
> I know that the PR notifications come from BugZilla and not from SVN, so
> what I don't know is how feasible it is rig up something like this, but I
> do know that I for one would quite appreciate something along these lines.

Quite feasible, hit me up off list and we can discuss further :)

./koobs



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