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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The traffic is already a nuisance! Commenting on your previous rebuttal:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Well, as I am watching tens of repos on Github, my mailbox is full of such emails.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That’s a problem with your mail client configuration, not the process!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> I would not notice such a mention, unless I decide to read the thread because the title is interesting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GitHub sets lots of headers – standard list ones in a predictable manner for each repo – and also some useful extra ones (I use them to filter out some other very high activity repos). In particular, watching for X-GitHub-Reason: mention
allows you to mark as high priority (or whatever you want to do in your MUA) a comment in which you’ve been tagged.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Direct mails would be much better.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">No they would not – getting people on the conversation thread of a PR is vastly superior; it groups the information and discussion in the place where it’s merged and archives it there. I have certainly had to bisect opam-repository before,
so being able to go from a SHA1->Merge->PR->Conversation is very useful. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On this string of PRs, I’m wondering if you’re treating the symptom, and not the cause. Each PR so far is to do with an altered checksum from a code service’s binary release system which suggests that they’re not canonical (i.e. that they’ve
changed the zip in what should be a trivial manner – e.g. putting the files in a different order). Rather than fixing the checksums, and causing this to happen again at the whim of a zip library, would it not be better to put in place a policy that zip links
should not be to GitHub/BitBucket/Whatever auto-generating URLs but to actual static files (e.g. on github.io)?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> opam-devel [mailto:opam-devel-bounces@lists.ocaml.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Fabrice Le Fessant<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 22 February 2016 15:33<br>
<b>To:</b> opam-devel<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [opam-devel] mailing liste for opam-repo maintainers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Is there a mailing-list for opam-repo maintainers only ? For me, this list is about the development of OPAM itself, I am a bit concerned about the trafic if we start to send emails on this list for synchronisation between repo maintainers.
Would it be worth creating <a href="mailto:opam-repo@ocaml.org">opam-repo@ocaml.org</a> ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--Fabrice<o:p></o:p></p>
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