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

[Scott Kitterman]

"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).
>
I'd go a bit further and suggest that while interesting, what's proposed here is a different thing than the current changes mail.  I don't think sending diffs to -changes would be well received, but I think a new list with (maybe just packaging) diffs would be a great idea.

Scott K