[rfc] shut down bazaar-commits list?

[Matt Nordhoff]

Martin Pool wrote:
> We have the bazaar-commits list
> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/bazaar-commits> to which
> some developers have their machines configured to send email every
> time they commit, thereby letting other people be aware of work that's
> not yet ready for mail.  I have occasionally got mail from Robert
> correcting bugs in code I have not yet pushed which is kind of cool
> though a bit creepy. :-)
> 
> Anyhow, this list, like all mailing lists, accumulates a bit of spam
> that needs to be manually filtered, so I was wondering if we can do
> away with it and just have people subscribe to branches on Launchpad
> instead.
> 
> I suspect the answer will be "no" because other people use the list
> more than I do, but I thought I'd ask anyhow.  At any rate it may be
> interesting to work out what would make this better on Launchpad.

Shrug, whatever. I don't subscribe to bazaar-commits, so it doesn't
matter to me.

> I think the drawbacks to doing it that way would be:
> 
>  * not all branches are pushed, or at least there may be some delay
> before they're pushed

Worse, if you're using mirrored branches, it might be 5-6 hours before
Launchpad mirrors the branch again, finds the new revisions and sends
the emails.

(Seriously, how do I always wind up pushing to my branches 20 minutes
after the last mirror?!)

>  * you can't (?) yet get a so-called structural subscription to all
> bzr branches?
> 
> It does have advantages:
>  * you can directly pull or browse the branch
>  * it doesn't take any client configuration beyond pushing the branch
>  * the data is available by rss as well as mail
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