Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (232 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> Hi,
>
> During the last week I worked on a project that I have on my TODO list
> for just too long: sending out mails about the state of factory packages.
>
> Too many people complain to me that they have no idea that their
> packages fail in factory or that they haven't seen the mail about the
> request X being declined, etc.
>
> So I collect the infos for each individual and send out reminders - my
> current idea is to send it out e.g every tuesday, but I can send it more
> often or less often as people say so.
>
> As an example I attach the mail as I would send it right now to Richard
> (because it has all interesting things and still isn't too long and I
> know he reads this list :)
>
> I would like to hear from you suggestions if this is useful to you
> and/or if you would like to see changes to make it more useful.
>
> I only send mail to the package maintainer as defined by the OBS flags
> and only if there is no maintainer set, I send mail to the project
> maintainers. This leads to the rather sad state, that a lot of people
> will get mail about packages they have no relation to. This is not a
> problem of the script, but a problem of some of the devel projects ;(
>
> So one thing to make this more useful (or the whole reporting) would be
> to set all people that have touched a specific package in the past also
> as package maintainers and either leave or cleanup the project
> maintainers. But that's a general topic that we should discuss instead
> of people starting to filter these mails.
>
> That's basically my main concern: I only want to send out mails that are
> interesting to the people reading it - even if it's auto generated
> content. So if the content is too long or too uninteresting, we need to
> change it.

A single mail once a week would be ok I think.  But - for the
unsubmitted changes part, can you include the .changes file
difference (of one .spec file only please ...)?

Richard.

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