One reason why I really like individual commit messages is that they  
can serve as starting points for disscussing one particular change.  
That has already happened quite a few times. I think we will lose that  
with digests.

Cheers,
Bernhard

Am 21.10.2009 um 08:38 schrieb Nicolas Cellier:

> 2009/10/21 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:35:25PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>>
>>> What I have been proposing is to use the mailman digest features  
>>> to have
>>> the commit messages go to a separate commit list and cross-post a  
>>> daily
>>> digest from the commit list to Squeak-dev. This should help us to  
>>> keep
>>> awareness up and I think dealing with a single commit summary per  
>>> day
>>> would keep the volume low enough for people to keep up with.
>>>
>>> I'm curious what people think about this idea or if you have other
>>> proposals for balancing these tradeoffs.
>>
>> Perhaps the response will vary according to what mail reader is being
>> used. For myself, I use a simple text mail client (mutt), and it is  
>> very
>> convenient to scan through the commit messages quickly, deleting them
>> as I get the gist of what was done. This is easy and and efficient,  
>> so
>> I am satified with the current notifications.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>
> I personnally do not much like digests, precisely because containing
> too much information at a time.
> The best feature of digests is that they are throwable in one click,
> I'm afraid that's the olny one.
> I'm not sure if we must legiferate at each specific event (a French  
> sport !)
> The question is whether such burst of activity will occur frequently  
> or not.
>
> Nicolas
>