Re: Multiple identical mails from Gerrit

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 2019-11-22 4:11 p.m., Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>>> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
>>> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:53:42 -0500
>>>
>>> When a patch with a Change-Id corresponding to an open Gerrit change is manually
>>> pushed to the binutils-gdb git repo, Gerrit notices it and that automatically
>>> creates a new version of the change, reflecting what was actually pushed.  That
>>> sends a mail of type "new patchset version".  It then changes the state to
>>> "Closed", which sends another email.
>>
>> Why do these trigger sending email at all?  We didn't get email about
>> pushing changesets before Gerrit, so why do we need them now?
>
> On the glibc side, I tend to agree with that - people wanting to see what 
> was pushed to master can follow glibc-cvs.

I think that having a notification saying that the patch was pushed is nice.  People
reply "I pushed the patch",  so we might as well let the system do it automatically
anyway.

I could maybe get rid of the second one (state change), I'll have to look in the configuration.

Anyway: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-11/msg00749.html

Simon