Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2017, #05; Tue, 22)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 15, 2017, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1709152214100.219280@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo9qbx14b.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Sat, 16 Sep 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > If you want *contributors* to ping the thread themselves, how about
> > *posting your updates there, too*?
> 
> I do not understand this comment at all.  That is what I and others
> already and always do by responding to the patches, and when trying
> to see if a topic is still alive, with thread-specific responses and
> pings.
> 
> If you are demanding that "What's cooking" report to be sent as a
> response to all the topics, that will *NOT* going to happen.  It is
> meant to give a summary of the current state to help contributors
> and reviewers be aware of what is happening across the entire tree
> and not limited to a specific topic.

If that is the case, you will have to be okay with others responding to your "What's cooking" mails instead of the original threads. That's what you are buying into by having these "What's cooking" mails that are in no usable way connected to the original threads.

Ciao, Dscho