From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21127 invoked by alias); 7 Jun 2010 19:34:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 21119 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jun 2010 19:34:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_SV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO mel.act-europe.fr) (212.99.106.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:34:34 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6F1CB0253; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:34:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mel.act-europe.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5u1D7-0cNCSa; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:34:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (91-172-107-220.rev.libertysurf.net [91.172.107.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mel.act-europe.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED955CB01D8; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:34:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Eric Botcazou To: NightStrike Subject: Re: Patch pinging Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:40:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <201006071901.03000.ebotcazou@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201006072131.00911.ebotcazou@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-06/txt/msg00286.txt.bz2 > Annoying or not, I wasn't offering to sift through svn commit logs. > It's very trivial for me to read through a mailing list that I already > read, and scan for messages that say "committed to branch B at > revision R." It's a lot more complicated to find out if something has > been committed myself, for every single patch out there, when the > committer already knows and can send his followup message saying that > the patch went in. Then browse the ChangeLog files. > Ideally, after a day of this, people will start sending such messages to > effectively close threads, and then you'll see very few messages from me. Please no, that's just a sheer waste of time/bandwidth/storage. -- Eric Botcazou