Suggestion: require release name in the approval request Subject line

[Edvard Wendelin]

I'll update the process page on the openjdk project page when I get to the office tomorrow! I haven't seen any complaints, so I think we can go ahead and do the change. Dalibor, if you don't agree, let me know :)

Cheers,
Edvard


On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Jeff Dinkins wrote:

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>> On 08:50 Wed 02 Nov     , Dan Smith wrote:
>>> I'd appreciate something like this:
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>>> Subject: [7u2 CR] 7099XXX - Duke's nose is the wrong Pantone shade of red
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> Edvard, Dalibor: what needs to be done to make this official and put into practice?
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> thanks,
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> jeff
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> On Nov 7, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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>> On 08:50 Wed 02 Nov     , Dan Smith wrote:
>>> I'd appreciate something like this:
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>>> Subject: [7u2 CR] 7099XXX - Duke's nose is the wrong Pantone shade of red
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>>> Right now I've got four different mail rules to try to filter out various review request subject lines; it's very ad hoc.  It's nice to separate these messages out, because they're typically much less likely to be of general interest.
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>> I like this format better too.
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>>> (Maybe there are also plans to move these off of the mailing lists entirely as we migrate to JIRA?)
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>> Depends how this works out.  I wouldn't want to lose any transparency or archiving that the mailing lists provide.
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>> A much bigger problem to me at the moment is the amount of commit traffic I get.  Can we not have these
>> on a separate list?  I need to be signed up to the lists to get the actual patch reviews/discussion, but
>> a commit to tl gives me about five identical e-mails.
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>> I understand those on a particular team want to know what's gone in their repository, but surely this
>> could be solved by having corresponding commit lists rather than dumping it all on the discussion list?
>> 
>>> —Dan
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