[XFS updates] XFS public tree - ..., mainline, updated. v2.6.28-rc3-934-ged31348

[Lachlan McIlroy]

Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> Niv Sardi wrote:
>> Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan at sgi.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hey Niv, why are we sending emails as other people?
>> I'm not, it's Mark's script to send emails, I tried setting up the
>> 'envelopesender' option to send as git at oss.sgi.com, but mails were not
>> getting sent... I guess I need to look into that...
>>
> The script post-receive-email is from the "git" git repository in contrib/hooks.
> The envelopesender is for setting up an email address to send to when
> a mailing failure occurs and the script uses the -f option to sendmail
> for this.
> The "From" line for the email is set up by the generate_email_header()
> function which sets it to the git committer. I presume that is where one
> would want to change the code.
> It could be set to a config variable which could be setup as git at oss.sgi.com
> 
> So I guess some questions about this:
> * do we want a square brackets tag in the mail subject, and if so what should it be
I think we need a tag for filtering.  Having XFS in it is a bit redundant
- maybe "[GIT MERGE] XFS public tree ..."

> * do we want the repository description in the subject
>   (I've trimmed the description back)
I think so but it needs to be shorter - "XFS public tree" will do.

> 
> The aim for this email was to have it like TAKE messages - and let people
> know the changes to the tree.
> 
> However, I don't think we ever sent TAKE msgs for updates of the
> kernel part (non fs/xfs). Do we want this or not?
We did send out TAKEs for kernel updates - we just didn't do it very often.
I think it would be good to keep doing it in case people are waiting for us
to update to a particular -rc or something.

> 
> --Tim
> 
>>> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>> Updates for the "XFS public tree - master for ...
>>>> the repository at "git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs.git"
>>>>
>>>> The branch, mainline has been updated
>>>>        via  ed313489badef16d700f5a3be50e8fd8f8294bc8 (commit)
>>>>        via  13d428afc007fcfcd6deeb215618f54cf9c0cae6 (commit)
> 
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