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[Max Bowsher <_@xxxxxxx>]

On 07/06/11 13:55, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> The VCS imports system currently sends a lot of email; at the moment it
> sends an email every time a vcs import has its import status changed. 
> This makes it very hard to do some (belated) spring cleaning of the
> existing imports as it means spamming a lot of people.
> 
> Personally, I only look at the occasional email about an existing import
> that has started failing or when a new import that requires approval has
> appeared, and I ignore everything else. Do other team members use them?
> 
> Would it be reasonable to restrict the emails for the vcs-imports team
> to just new imports requiring review (i.e. CVS and SVN imports) and
> imports that have started failing? Branch subscribers could still be
> sent all status changes.

From the perspective of notifications that I actually want to be
notified about, your defined set sounds right.

However, I have occasionally found myself using my archived folder of
vcs-imports mails as an audit log ("Who left that unattributed comment
in the branch whiteboard?")

Max.

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