[Python-Dev] A dizzying stream of checkins (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 16:46:28 -0400

This is just an aside, only peripherally related to the current "stability" thread, but my head starts to spin when I see a rapid flurry of checkins. (I count 43 in my current inbox since about 6PM EDT Sunday). That doesn't count any I've already deleted. It appears that there are some things going in on the main branch, Guido's checking in bool() and friends for 2.2.1 and Anthony's putting the 2.1.3 release machine in motion. I guess I could sort it out better if I paid closer attention to the presence or absence of a Tag: attribute in the checkin mail. Has anyone given any thought to how this flood of mail might be managed more cleanly? I can certainly mess around locally with procmail, but I was wondering if it was worth trying to do something more centrally.

I think it may be worse because SF held on to a whole bunch of checkin mails and then decided to send them all at once.

Also, we're doing two releases tonight.

Zope Corp uses a superior post-commit action script that seems to be able to send email to different lists depending to the tag; maybe we can add that feature to our commit script?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)