Fw: [ubuntu/natty] pythonmagick 0.9.1-3ubuntu5 (Accepted)

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 12 December 2010 10:07, Michael Bienia <michael at bienia.de> wrote:
> On 2010-12-11 09:24:37 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> So, I actually find these notifications less helpful than they could be.  I'm
>> used to being on various "-checkins" mailing lists where every change to a
>> tree is included in the notification in unidiff format.  This is a great, low
>> impact way, to monitor what's happening to code you care about.  It's also a
>> cheap way to propagate post-commit review of changes.  It's not uncommon for
>> example to see a Python commit be questioned and adjusted after the fact
>> (that's why we have a vcs, right? :).
>>
>> I would love to see the same thing in these -changes notifications.
>
> I could live with a link to the generated LP diff or a link to the
> commit in the packaging branch for easier access but please don't
> include the whole diff in the -changes mail as I prefer to have them
> small.
> For an ubuntuX → ubuntuX+1 upload the diff will most likely be only a
> few kB but for an upload of a new upstream version the diff can be
> several hundred kB or even some MB. I don't want to have such huge diffs
> attached to the -changes email as I certainly won't read such big diffs
> (and especially won't read diffs of generated files like configure or
> updates of line numbers in translation templates).
>

The launchpad codehosting can limit the diff to e.g. 1000 lines. We
are really interested in full debian/ diff and directly applied
patches the rest is less important when it is new upstream release.

>> How hard would it be to do that?
>
> As the -changes mail gets generated when the upload gets accepted that
> would probably delay them if they need to wait on the diff.
> How long does it take till the diff between two uploads is available in
> LP?
>
> Michael
>
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