[webkit-dev] Cherry-Pick Bug Comments

[Antonio Gomes]

We had this exactly discussion in qtwebkit mailing list days ago:
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-qt/2011-May/001555.html . It is
worth reading through if you are interested in this topic!

We would really like to reduce the noise of "management bugmails", but
without a clear good solution for now yet. The "silent" comments suggested
by Evan would be a great alternative to the problem if bugzilla could get
expanded to support it, imo...


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Evan Martin <evan at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
> > I get a lot of these:
> > Revision r86028 cherry-picked into qtwebkit-2.2 with commit 7e1bab1
> > <http://gitorious.org/webkit/qtwebkit/commit/7e1bab1>
> > as bug mail.  Probably because I'm CC'd on a zillion bugs (and actually
> read
> > my bug mail).
> >
> > This is probably the pot calling the kettle black, since I wrote many of
> the
> > bots which comment daily on bugs...
> > ...but, I'm wondering if we can do better?
> > Would it better serve the cherry-picker's needs if we instead had a
> separate
> > server to track revision -> cherry-picks?  Or bug ids -> cherry-picks?
> (Like
> > how the EWS bots store their status on queues.webkit.org and display it
> in
> > little bubbles on bugs.webkit.org w/o commenting on the bugs.)
> >
> > I'm strongly supportive of all clients of webkit storing all of their
> > bug-related data in bugs.webkit.org.  It's better than the alternative
> (lots
> > of data buried in old Radars, or Chromium bugs, etc.)
> > But perhaps someone has a good idea how to reduce unnecessary bugmail?
>
> I've seen some bug trackers reduce email by allowing you to comment
> without sending email.  In effect you're just attaching metadata to
> the bug without notifying everyone about it.
>
> However, the comments left by the EWS are intended for the bug authors
> and so they probably should continue sending mail.
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