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--[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 10:58, 20 April 2015 (EDT)
--[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 10:58, 20 April 2015 (EDT)
== Additional info ==
{{FGCquote
  |One additional thing to keep in mind is that our flightgear-commitlogs<br/>
mailing list has a maximum message size configured to 160Kb.  Messages<br/>
larger than this get sent over to the list moderator.  That may be why some<br/>
of these messages are delayed.  I mentioned this to Torsten offline and it<br/>
sounded like he had some ideas for ensuring that extra long diffs get<br/>
trimmed to a reasonable size for a mailing list.
  |{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33913347/
    |title=<nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-commitlogs] [FGData] FlightGear
data - next generation branch next updated.
7b595eca19e1bfb83ae330c02f2eeec5e9c9da58</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Curtis Olson</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>2015-04-19</nowiki>
  }}
}}
{{FGCquote
  |Both the post-commit-email and<br/>
git-multimail scripts have an option for this (hooks.emailmaxlines and<br/>
multimailhook.emailMaxLines respectively).  Maybe 10,000 lines would<br/>
be a good limit?  The interesting part of the diff might be preceded<br/>
by a lot of 'noise', especially if multiple files are touched, so long<br/>
messages are not a bad thing.  And as this is a read-only list, users<br/>
won't be attaching large binary files to their messages.  So would it<br/>
be good, in addition to setting these line limits, to increase the<br/>
size limit a little?  It will be hard to match line number to a KB<br/>
number, so it might save admins from having to check and accept<br/>
messages via the Mailman web interface.  It could be a good long term<br/>
time saver.<br/>
  |{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33913630/
    |title=<nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-commitlogs] [FGData] FlightGear
data - next generation branch next updated.
7b595eca19e1bfb83ae330c02f2eeec5e9c9da58</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Edward d'Auvergne</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>2015-04-19</nowiki>
  }}
}}
{{FGCquote
  |The default mailman option is 40kb, so we have doubled the allowable size<br/>
twice now. :-)  I don't have a big emotional attachment to the current<br/>
limit, but I suspect that it's starting to get close to being big enough.<br/>
I don't think too many people are going to spend the time to review a 160Kb<br/>
diff in an email browser ... at that point there are probably better tools<br/>
for evaluating the differences.  I think Torsten is planning to experiment<br/>
with limiting the message sizes as a first step.  But going forward we can<br/>
certainly tune the numbers on both the sending side and the mailing list<br/>
side and move towards a more optimal balance.
  |{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33913846/
    |title=<nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-commitlogs] [FGData] FlightGear
data - next generation branch next updated.
7b595eca19e1bfb83ae330c02f2eeec5e9c9da58</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Curtis Olson</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>2015-04-19</nowiki>
  }}
}}


== Bug reports on mailing lists? ==
== Bug reports on mailing lists? ==

Latest revision as of 10:14, 13 May 2016

Template for mailing list URLs

we should set up a template for the rows in the table, so that we can easily reuse/localize everything elsewhere (as per the git/repo link templates)

  • address
  • archives
  • subscribe
  • comments
  • description (localized)
  • status

--Hooray (talk) 10:58, 20 April 2015 (EDT)

Bug reports on mailing lists?

Is not that bad advice? Should not bug reports be redirected to the issue tracker in order to lessen unproductive/disruptive noise, in particular on the developer mailing list?

Johan G (Talk | contribs) 16:50, 10 May 2015 (EDT)