[PATCH] gitpublish: Drop custom prefix

Andrea Bolognani posted 1 patch 3 years, 1 month ago
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[PATCH] gitpublish: Drop custom prefix
Posted by Andrea Bolognani 3 years, 1 month ago
Now that all projects except the main library are using GitLab
merge requests, all the patches that end up on libvir-list are by
definition intended for libvirt itself rather than one of the
subprojects, and so it's no longer necessary to include additional
information in the mail subject.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
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 .gitpublish | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitpublish b/.gitpublish
index d37bf4174a..857f0d552c 100644
--- a/.gitpublish
+++ b/.gitpublish
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 [gitpublishprofile "default"]
 base = master
 to = libvir-list@redhat.com
-prefix = libvirt PATCH
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2.26.2

Re: [PATCH] gitpublish: Drop custom prefix
Posted by Daniel P. Berrangé 3 years, 1 month ago
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Now that all projects except the main library are using GitLab
> merge requests, all the patches that end up on libvir-list are by
> definition intended for libvirt itself rather than one of the
> subprojects, and so it's no longer necessary to include additional
> information in the mail subject.

It is still useful to have libvirt in the subject as a person's inbox
may have mail from multiple different mailing lists, and this subject
prefix distinguishes them.

Regards,
Daniel
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Re: [PATCH] gitpublish: Drop custom prefix
Posted by Andrea Bolognani 3 years, 1 month ago
On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 10:22 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Now that all projects except the main library are using GitLab
> > merge requests, all the patches that end up on libvir-list are by
> > definition intended for libvirt itself rather than one of the
> > subprojects, and so it's no longer necessary to include additional
> > information in the mail subject.
> 
> It is still useful to have libvirt in the subject as a person's inbox
> may have mail from multiple different mailing lists, and this subject
> prefix distinguishes them.

That will not work reliably as it's not enforced.

Looking at the virtualization-related mailing lists I'm subscribed
to, on qemu-devel the prefix is never used, and on both libvir-list
and virt-tools-list you can find patches using it as well as patches
not using it.

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