From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: org changes lost Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:11:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18730.4893.357634.127478@fencepost.gnu.org> <878wr9lqtr.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <9EC5D47F-0BFB-4188-B955-FDF018289DA6@gmail.com> <87k5aswldq.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227625927 20264 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2008 15:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , Glenn Morris , Emacs developers , Juanma Barranquero , Carsten Dominik To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 16:13:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L4zb6-00083K-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:13:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38584 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4zZx-0002Uk-BO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:11:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4zZt-0002Uf-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:11:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4zZs-0002US-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:11:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56003 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4zZr-0002UP-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:11:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:12443 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4zZp-0005dQ-Ei; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:11:45 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiQFAFikK0nO+J+z/2dsb2JhbACBbdEcgXWBCIEg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,664,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="30273335" Original-Received: from 206-248-159-179.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.159.179]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 25 Nov 2008 10:11:44 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EC09470025; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:11:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87k5aswldq.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:10:57 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106148 Archived-At: >>> For me the biggest improvement would be to get an email copy >>> of all changes to files where I am the maintainer, not buried >>> in the general commits digest (where I do overlook things), >>> but a personalized one. I am sure that such emails could be >>> generated automatically, but I don't know how. >> >> That would be good indeed. Maybe someone could setup such a service: >> register to emacs-diffs, and then use a table that maps file names to >> maintainers's email addresses to figure out to whom to send the email. > Probably easier to do on the client side: subscribe to emacs-diffs and > use gnus splitting rules to move only mails about files you are > interested in to an folder that you read (the names of the changed files > are in the Subject lines, so this is easy). That requires every externally managed author to setup such rules. What I suggest is to it once and for all. It will also have the advantage of sending to email even to those who otherwise wouldn't think of subsribing to emacs-diffs. Stefan