Re: [Tails-dev] Getting rid of review'n'merge email on this …

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Author: u
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Getting rid of review'n'merge email on this list
intrigeri:
> Hi,
>
> some of us are tired of having to ask for review'n'merge on this list,
> duplicating the (semantically more powerful) action of setting
> a ticket as Ready for QA in Redmine. Recently, we tend to forget more
> and more often to send such email; moreover, some teams (e.g. the doc
> and test suite teams) have simply stopped sending them already.


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Very good point.

> I see two options from this point:
>
> A) Decide that the Atom feed is good enough and document it, with its
>    aforementioned limitation (so that people can adjust their config).
>    I volunteer to do that if we decide to go this way.

>
> B) Decide that it's not good enough, and then look into a push
>    notification solution. Or, set up a dedicated mailing-list that
>    a rss2email instance will email. That rss2email will need to run as
>    often as reasonably possible, so that it misses as few Ready for QA
>    tickets as possible..

>
> With my "OMG we need to provide a Perfect™ way to track this stuff"
> hat on, of course I'm inclined to prefer (B). But realistically,


I did not expect otherwise from you with that hat on ;)
>From my point of view (B) would be the Perfect™ solution, but... read on.


> I believe that (A) will be good enough for 99.99% of use cases I care
> about, and our sysadmin team is overloaded with new services design
> help + deployment requests already, so the benefits of (B) don't seem
> worth adding it to that team's plate.


I should probably simply start using a feed reader and then I'll be part
of that 99.99% of people :)

See if it works out for some time and if not, switch to solution (B)?

> Thoughts, opinions?


Cheers!
u.