On 07/24/2018 04:44 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 24.07.18 at 16:01, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't see what the problem is in having a single response to the >> thread saying that the test was run, the result of the run, and a link >> to a page about it. It's certainly less mail than I get in the course >> of a normal review cycle about patch series I'm not interested in. >> >> I mean, suppose we just had a really enthusiastic contributor who made >> it their personal goal to test and build every patch that was sent to >> the list. Would anyone really complain about a single extra mail per >> series, when a typical series generates dozens of human-generated mails >> anyway? > > Well, I agree one can view at this from different angles. Your > perspective looks to be that with there already being so much > mail, a little more doesn't hurt. I'm on the position that every > unnecessary mail is a problem. For (long) series the one extra > mail perhaps is indeed not only tolerable but helpful (albeit even > there it would rather be one mail per version, which may > become increasingly pointless as only very small changes get > done between versions). For individual patches (one liners to > take the extreme) there often is just a single response with an > ack. The bot would increase that volume by a whopping 50% > (or 100% for anyone for their own patches). > > With all this said, just to be clear: I'm not against improvements > here or anywhere else, but their price needs to be reasonable.
OK, well why don't we give it a try, and if people find the mail spammy we can add a "do-not-mail" list that the bot will avoid sending mail to. If there's a series someone in the do-not-mail list decides they want information on, it shouldn't be too difficult to find it from the status page. -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
