On 24.08.2009, at 11:24, Frank Shearar wrote:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 23.08.2009, at 23:51, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
Hi all.
Would it perhaps be better to have the automated trunk commit messages going to some other dedicated mailing list?
Gulik.
I was curious how long it would take the first one to speak up :)
Hah, yes indeed :)
No, I would rather create a squeak-users list for those not interested in developing Squeak itself, but just "with" Squeak. IMHO the commits messages make the community development process visible, which is a Good Thing.
Well, while they are a bit noisy, I don't mind them, and they _do_ provide visibility into the process. I can't say I read all of them, but I like having the option of just skimming diffs if I feel the urge.
Other mailing lists do the same: slime-devel have a "Daily Commit Log" message. That might be an option if people find the messages TOO noisy: bundle the commits into a single message per day. Pros: less noise on the list; cons: higher latency for those interested. But, I guess, one could have BOTH: a daily message with all the commits (or a summary, if the message ends up bigger than 100K) to squeak-dev and, er, a squeak-dev-dev for the full fat option.
That's precisely what I proposed an hour before ;) Wanna work on it?
- Bert -