[med-svn] r17002 - trunk/community/website/docs

[Charles Plessy]

Author: plessy
Date: 2014-05-24 13:35:18 +0000 (Sat, 24 May 2014)
New Revision: 17002

Modified:
   trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
For packages pulling Upstream, set multimailhook.maxCommitEmails to ~20.


Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2014-05-23 12:23:39 UTC (rev 17001)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2014-05-24 13:35:18 UTC (rev 17002)
@@ -535,6 +535,11 @@
 		  <para>If you do not use git-buildpackage, please use <command>pristine-tar</command> anyway to register the compressed archives that you upload to Debian as original upstream sources (the <literal>orig.tar.{gz|bz2|xz}</literal> file), with a command such as the following, where <literal>tarball</literal> is a path to the archive file and <literal>tag</literal> is the upstream release tag for that archive (as a fallback, if you created the tarball from a given branch, use the name of the branch).<programlisting>
 <code><command>pristine-tar commit</command> <option>tarball</option> <option>tag</option></code>
 </programlisting></para>
+			<para>Commit messages are sent to our commit mailing list with the <ulink
+			url="https://github.com/mhagger/git-multimail/">git-multimail</ulink>
+			tool.  To avoid sending too many messages, consider setting the option
+			<option>multimailhook.maxCommitEmails</option> to a low value, for instance
+			20; the default is 500…</para>
 		</sect2>
 	</sect1>
 	<sect1 id="packaging">