engine-patches mailing list

[Itamar Heim]

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