Re: engine-patches mailing list

From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel(a)redhat.com&gt;, "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 9:30:10 AM Subject: Re: engine-patches mailing list On 06/09/2015 01:57 PM, Omer Frenkel wrote: > Hi, > I've been monitoring the pending requests list for the engine-patches > mailing list for a while now, > from what i could see, no one send mails to this list except automated > mails initiated at gerrit (which is pretty much expected). > the rest is spam.. > > this makes a requirement for people using gerrit (code contributors and > reviewers) to subscribe to the list, > and get all the mails on all gerrit activity. > some people do not want to subscribe, and mails on their activity needs > manual processing. > > maybe there is a way to have automated job to run daily/weekly to add all > gerrit users to the accept list for this list? > then i would change the list to automatically reject all mail from > non-subscribers and users that are not in the accept list. > > what do you think? > any other suggestion? they don't have to be subscribed, though we do need to add them as approved sender once we see this. same for engine-commits, though less than patches on number of folks actually making the commit. I'm fine with removing engine-patches and keeping engine-commits only