Re: [Viking-devel] svn commit mailing list?

[Bernd Z. <be...@bz...>]

> For anyone who is interested in "commits" rather than "files changes" then
> git is definitely a great tool. But if there are more demands from
> package maintainers for easily monitoring changes then we should help
> them. Another mailing list would be justified if we don't want to clutter
> viking-devel list. We can't blame people for not learning new tools.
> They may just be too busy.

I know git pretty well - but to monitor changes I'd either have to use
the console manually, or setup a cronjob to do so. A svn commit mail is
a much more easy way to see what's happening as soon as the commit was
made - because I don't have to pull changes, I get notified as soon as
they happen. But the git's RSS feed works well enough for me - I don't
care if logs popup in my feed reader or in my mail reader.
The only thing I find mail archives better for is if you want to give a
comment to a commit - you can just reply to the message (if the ML is
setup well, you have the -devel list in reply-to) and add your comments
to the lines. Can't see how that's possible in an easy way with any
other method.


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Bernd Zeimetz
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