Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:12:32 +0800 From: "Philip Paeps" <philip@freebsd.org> To: "Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "Guangyuan Yang" <ygy@freebsd.org>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-doc-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: eb28fee24e - handbook: document new commit message mailing lists Message-ID: <EEC011B3-2591-4685-A689-8B57C408121F@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqQF2iAYbyiGvzkNh7e5zZLk7YBQjg1xF6=oNW3V1fdSA@mail.gmail.com> References: <202012140606.0BE66hbk097708@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <9E71CC85-BDBC-46BD-82B8-64F7ED89774E@freebsd.org> <CANCZdfqQF2iAYbyiGvzkNh7e5zZLk7YBQjg1xF6=oNW3V1fdSA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2020-12-15 13:32:49 (+0800), Warner Losh wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 10:19 PM Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> > wrote: > >> On 2020-12-14 14:06:43 (+0800), Guangyuan Yang wrote: >>> + <para><emphasis>Commit message lists:</emphasis> The >>> following >>> + lists are for people interested in seeing the log messages for >>> + changes to various areas of the source tree. They are >>> + <emphasis>Read-Only</emphasis> lists and should not have mail >>> + sent to them.</para> >> >> The dev-commits-* lists are not read-only. All subscribers can post >> to >> them. > > I'd love to change things so they are and all follow ups go to a new > list, > maybe dev-commits-discuss.... I don't think this is practical. It's trivial to set a Reply-To: header to a -discuss list, but Reply-To takes either zero or one address. If the committer being replied to doesn't subscribe to the -discuss list, that's not great. We could add -discuss to the To: line, and reply-all will hit that list too, but unless folks manually remove the read-only list, they'll get a bounce. In my experience, discussions on our commit mailing lists are usually short ... and when they're not short, they should be (and usually/often are) moved to more relevant discussion lists (e.g. arch). I think trying to add -discuss lists will create more problems than it solves. Discussions will become more fragmented (not less) and we'll have a hard time managing people's expectations with respect to what "reply" means in specific mail clients. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises
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