Re: Suggestions for "What's cooking"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 12, 2012, 21:49 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAPBPrnu9adK0mPLyVfimAzBEo7ZH+6HhqtLBRFWAvEA9mEGFfg@mail.gmail.com>

Dan Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com> writes:

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> I was thinking about this earlier. I wondered if it might even be
> worth it just to CC the authors of all topics whose status has changed
> since the last what's cooking, to make sure that they see updates
> pertinent to them. I know that I at least have filters which catch
> emails which CC me and promote them to my inbox, so I would see them
> more readily.

I've done that a few times per release cycle, usually before we go into the pre-release freeze, but doing so manually is very time consuming. It's the kind of bureaucratic overhead I'd rather avoid. If somebody volunteers to write a script that takes something like

    git diff whats-cooking.txt

in a checkout of the 'todo' branch and figure out whom to Cc, and do so reliably, it may be an option.

Thanks.