[opensource-dev] ReviewBoard email to this list?

[Ponzu]

<humor  text="I suggest that you automatically send a copy of everything to
all the whiners and moaners. " >

ponzu



On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) <oz at lindenlab.com
> wrote:

>  As you'll have inferred, we now have a system set up for doing open code
> reviews.  It's not perfect, but it's pretty nice and very easy to use.
>
> It also generates quite a bit of email - one for each newly posted request,
> and one (properly threaded) for each comment or other action on that review.
>
> If I understand the capabilities correctly, the software allows each
> 'review group' to either:
>
>    1. Configure a single mailing list address for the group (of which at
>    present we have only the one 'viewer' group)
>    2. Leave that address blank
>
> If a list address is configured, all emails for reviews in that group are
> sent to the list address.  If it is left blank, then individual emails are
> sent to each of the members of the review group.
>
> I chose to configure the opensource-dev list as the mailing list, and the
> messages do get sent there (as From the user, so the address you configure
> for your account needs to match the one you use for the list, or that mail
> will fail).
>
> This will mean a considerable increase in list traffic, I think, since
> every commit to viewer-development should be reviewed.  I think that the
> increase in transparency of what is happening, and the opportunities for
> everyone to learn more about more of the code base makes this increase worth
> it, but am interested in the opinions of other list members.
>
> Note that these emails are easy to set up filters for - not only will all
> of them have 'Review Request' in the Subject lines, there are also a couple
> of custom headers in each message that make them easy to recognize.
>
>
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