do you know enough about what (other) Bazaar developers are doing?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
| I've set up a Mailman topic "codereview", and people can use this to
| opt out of getting review related mail.  (Or, if you want, to get only
| code reviews, but that would look a bit strange.)
|
| Messages will be classified into this topic if they have either
| [merge] or [codereview] in the Subject, or in a Keywords header, or in
| a pseudoheader in the top 5 lines of the message body.
|
| I have to say that the interface through which users can configure
| this is not so obvious and people who want it may not find it.  But,
| it's there and we can see how it goes.
|
| If anyone wants to try it out: go to
| <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/options/bazaar>, enter your address,
| and scroll to the bottom of the resulting page.  If it doesn't work as
| intended please let me know.
|

So, I was reading through the description, and I found this:

| If you do not select any topics of interest, you will get all the messages
| sent to the mailing list.

And the description below that is:
| Do you want to receive messages that do not match any topic filter?
|
| This option only takes effect if you've subscribed to at least one
topic above.


So there is a problem. There is no way to say that don't want codereview
messages.

You can get *only* codereview by checking the box, and then saying you
don't want unmatched messages.

You can get all messages by either not checking codereview, or by
checking it and saying you *do* want unmatched messages.

It seems that the only way to get what non-reviewers want, is to have
multiple topics, perhaps one as a dummy "ijustwanttodisablecodereview"
topic.

Further, I *do* like the idea of sending merge requests directly to BB,
and having it forward the messages to the list. I think it could be an
optional feature for people who know the BB address. I suppose that I'm
a bit concerned with BB's stability if we do implement this. Because if
BB goes down, then all of our submissions get circular filed (trashed
until bounce, or whatever).

John
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