Mercurial mail flood

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 29/05/2008, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  That mercurial mail flood on distro-pkg-dev was the result of Andrew's
>  hard work merging all the icedtea6 changes into icedtea[7] and upgrading
>  to openjdk b26. Apologies for not realizing in time that this would
>  replay all of the history (since February!) and generated 287 emails
>  (urgh). [*]
>
>  I'll try and change the scripts so they bundle the commits of one push.
>  This is what some other openjdk mailinglists seem to do. Although the
>  actual patches are lost then from the email. Are the mercurial scripts
>  for those other lists available somewhere?
>
>  Thanks and sorry for the spamming,
>
>  Mark
>
>  [*] Currently we use:
>
>  [hooks]
>  incoming.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
>
>  [notify]
>  sources = serve push pull bundle
>  test = False
>  maxdiff = 500
>
>  [usersubs]
>  ## key is subscriber email, value is comma-separated list of glob patterns
>  # We don't want notification of /hg/testrepo, so not included. openjdk
>  # overrides maxdiff to not send any diffs. The others use the default above.
>  distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net = /hg/fedora,/hg/icedtea,/hg/icedtea6,/hg/openjdk,/hg/icepick,/hg/brandweg
>
>
>

Sorry from me as well everyone.  Hope your life flashing before your
eyes didn't scare you too much...
-- 
Andrew :-)

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