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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2017, 02:32 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqbmm7s9ja.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1709181637420.219280@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> Do you have a concrete suggestion to make these individual entries more
>> helpful for people who may want go back to the original thread in doing
>> so?  In-reply-to: or References: fields of the "What's cooking" report
>> would not help.  I often have the message IDs that made/helped me make
>> these individual comments in the description; they alone would not react
>> to mouse clicks, though.
>
> Oh gawd, not even more stuff piled onto the mail format. Please stop.
> ...
> It probably tries to serve too many purposes at the same time, and thereby
> none.

Well, this was started as my attempt to give a public service that shows a summary of what is happening in the entire integration tree, as there was nothing like that before (and going to github.com and looking at 'pu' branch would not give you an easy overview). As many people contribute many topics to the project, complaining that it talks about too many topics would not get you anywhere.

If you find "What's cooking" report not serving your needs, and if no one finds it not serving his or her needs, then I can stop sending these out, of course, but I am not getting the impression that we are at that point, at least not yet.