[Pkg-puppet-devel] commit and moderation messages

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

On 28. mai 2011, at 18.01, micah wrote:

> In case people are confused by the recent flow of commit messages that
> are coming in now, its not related to any repository changes, just me
> clearing out the pending moderator messages in the queue.

Thanks.  I've forgotten about the moderator queue.

By the way, when a message is held by for moderation, the originator gets a mail, unless we've configured Mailman to not do that.  This may be a source of confusion for upstream committers, since this is a result of one of us pushing changes to the repository.

> Since I'm on the subject, do people find these commit messages
> worthwhile? The only thing it does for me is to alert me that a change
> was done (but I can get that other ways) and is otherwise a bit of a
> flood to the list that I think may be distracting to discussions
> otherwise.
> 
> what do others think?

I'm not sure.  I don't use them for anything myself, but I've no trouble automatically filtering them to a mailbox I seldom read. :)