The tail is wagging the dog here. It sounds like you need to reconfigure the mailing list to not be so noisy; i.e. to ignore commits on non-master branches. The problem is the mailing list, not the branches.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> wrote: > > >>> and shouldn't clutter the commit logs. > > Well, my point is that they DO clutter commit logs, see ML link. > > On your (private) fork I am not notified about your each commit, while > I AM notified about each commit on ASF repo :) > > Also, I DO want to be notified about ANY change happening in canonical > ASF reposes, so IMHO this is not a "red herring". > Just use a fork, that's all. > > Thanks > T > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> > wrote: > > > > This shouldn't be a problem if we disable everything except squash and > > merge and require all commits to go through PRs. We do have a big > > problem with commits that go straight into the source tree without a > > PR or a code review. > > > > Branch vs fork is a red herring. IMHO working on branches is much > > simpler and shouldn't clutter the commit logs. > > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> wrote: > > > > > > Howdy, > > > > > > I'd like to ask devs to NOT code directly against branches in ASF > > > repositories, as we are swamped literally with unwanted spam: I am not > > > interested in each commit of the branch being worked on. > > > > > > Instead, fork the repo and create PRs. > > > > > > The commits ML is nearly unusable, I'd really like to see _only the > > > changes_ in "proper" codebases, but instead we have thousands of mails > > > about commits on any branch in there: > > > https://lists.apache.org/list.html?comm...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > This also raises the problem of branch cleanup in canonical reposes as > > > well... > > > > > > TL;DR: fork and create PRs from forks please. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > T > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > > > > -- > > Elliotte Rusty Harold > > elh...@ibiblio.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
