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[PATCH] etc: Stop making sendemail behave strangely.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>, 64151 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#64151] [PATCH] etc: Stop making sendemail behave strangely.
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:12:51 -0400

Hi Liliana,

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> I think what we really need here is not a dumb tool that just stamps a
> bunch of patches in some way, but one that is aware of the context of a
> series.  Does a significant number of patches touch files associated
> with some team?  Flag it.  Are there any packages that cause a high
> number of rebuilds?  Mention the X-team branch.  I also think the tool
> ought to explain what it does (perhaps offering a flag to skip
> explanations for expert users) and be accompanied with proper
> documentation for a manual workflow on which it is based.

We already have such a tool: 'mumi send-email'.  It also makes use of
the etc/teams.scm script, so of the tagging is of bad quality, we should
fix it there.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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