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[PATCH] etc: Stop making sendemail behave strangely.

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Message #72 received at 64151-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 64151-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#64151: [PATCH] etc: Stop making sendemail behave strangely.
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:49:35 -0400

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> I'm obviously OK with this when people directly want my input or if I'm
>> already involved in the conversation, but this CC thing has extended
>> that to most/any patch submissions that are detected overlapping with
>> teams I'm in.
>
> Notifying team members of a patch touching their scope is the intended
> behavior of the teams mechanism.
>
>> Maybe this is just because of the email address I used for teams. I've
>> now gone and changed this from mail <at> cbaines.net to guix <at> cbaines.net,
>> which comes to the same place, but I'll hopefully be able to use the
>> different address to separate out the emails appropriately.
>
> Of course this behavior now being automated, if you are part of many
> teams, the amount of emails reaching your inbox may be higher than it
> used to be.  If the flux is too large for you to process, I'd recommend
> you review and perhaps trim your current teams subscription.  One of the
> expected side-effect of notifying team members with etc/teams.scm is
> that it should improve reviews.  Keeping our team scopes more focus (and
> encouraging active participation of new team members) should help reduce
> the load in the long run.

Are you OK with closing this issue?

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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