Re: Multiple identical mails from Gerrit

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 17:03:54 -0500
> 
> >> 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.

My problem with these messages is that I have to look at the fine
details of the Subject line, and perhaps also at the beginning of the
body, to understand whether I need to review the patch.  Since I only
review the documentation parts, and rarely look at other parts of the
changeset, it is important for me to be able to quickly understand
whether a posted patch needs my attention.  And these messages, which
look almost exactly like an RFA but for minor details, make this
harder.

But maybe I'm the only one who is in this situation, in which case
I'll have to live with this.

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

Thanks you.

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

Yep.  So maybe this issue is of academic importance ;-)