[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] Mailing list changes this week

Tom Stellard via llvm-dev
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 05:12:48 -0000

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:33 PM Tom Stellard <tstellar at redhat.com
<mailto:tstellar at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/15/2019 09:24 PM, Mehdi AMINI wrote:
>     > Hi Tom.
>     >
>     > One issue with this is that we don't have a clear
"ordering" from linear revision numbers from these emails. Have we
looked into continuing to generate our own emails per commits instead so that we
control the format?
>     >
>
>     This actually what we are doing, we are listening for github commit
events and
>     then generating our own emails based on the data in the event.  We can
format
>     the emails how ever we want, and we tried to match the current SVN
format exactly.
>
>
> Ah great!
>
>
>     Is the some other information you would like to have in the emails to
show the
>     ordering?
>
>
> The only thing I was looking to get was to continue to have a monotonic
incrementing integer for the revision instead of the git hash alone: I don't
know if `git llvm` has this feature yet but this was discussed a while ago (I
don't remember if we just mentioned counting the commits in the repo from
the beginning or using an invocation of `git describe` or something derived).
>

We talked about using `git describe` for this, but this would require that we
add tags to the master branch each time the version number was bumped.  We
discussed this[1] last year, but deferred the decision, since we couldn't
get
consensus on the tag name.

-Tom

[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-December/128484.html

> --
> Mehdi
>
>
>
>
>     -Tom
>
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > --
>     > Mehdi
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:07 PM Tom Stellard via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>
<mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at
lists.llvm.org>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hi,
>     >
>     >     We are going to start to switching from SVN commit emails to
GitHub commit
>     >     emails this week.  The only real change you should notice is
that
>     >     the revision number in the subject will be replaced with a git
hash and
>     >     the diff links in the email will point to GitHub.  Otherwise
the
>     >     content and format of the email should be the same.
>     >
>     >     We are going to start by rolling this out for the
openmp-commits list
>     >     and then once that's working begin migrating the rest of
the lists.  If you
>     >     notice any issues with the new emails, please file a bug and
mark it
>     >     as a blocker of the github meta-bug (llvm.org/PR39393
<http://llvm.org/PR39393> <http://llvm.org/PR39393>).
>     >
>     >     Thanks,
>     >     Tom
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