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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Cc: Euler Taveira <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Opinion poll: Sending an automated email to a thread when it gets added to the commitfest
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:43:15 -0400
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Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
> On 15.08.24 19:25, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
>> Apart from the above issue, I'm -0.5 on what to me equates with 
>> automated spam to -hackers: the volume of mails would put this around 
>> the 16th most common sender on -hackers, with about 400 mails/year 
>> (based on 80 new patches for next CF, and 5 CFs/year, combined with 
>> Robert's 2023 statistics at [0]).

> Yeah, I'd rather not open the can of worms that we send automated emails 
> to this list at all.  If we do this, then there will be other requests, 
> and why this one and not that one.  If people want to get emails from 
> the commitfest app, it should be that you subscribe there and it sends 
> those emails to those who want them.

That would destroy the one good argument for this, which was to
provide an easy way to get from a mail list thread (in the archives)
to the corresponding CF entry or entries.  You pull up the "flat"
thread, search for the bot mail, and click the link.  Without that
I see little point at all.

However, there are other ways to accomplish that.  I liked the
suggestion of extending the CF webapp with a way to search for entries
mentioning a particular mail message ID.  I dunno how hard it'd be to
get it to recognize *any* message-ID from a thread, but surely at
least the head message ought not be too hard to match.

			regards, tom lane






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