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Glenn Strong writes:
On Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 10:48 -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
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Glenn -- any chance it could use something like http://jmason.org/software/patches/moin-1.2.2-jm-commitmails.patch:539 ? it's really much more useful as it sends the full diffs of changes to the list, which is a good way to spur discussion.
The patch looks fine to me (it's against an earlier version but I can see how to hand-apply it in our version). I'm slightly concerned about sending a large volume of unwanted mail to this list (there were 21 edits today, although some of them were flagged trivial and didn't generate any mail).
Yeah, it can be a little noisy. That being a problem depends on the list in question; if it is, maybe a new list is the best approach.
My take on it is that the wiki becomes an extension of the list, in a way - -- discussions on the wiki get "mirrored" to the list, and can fork off into list-only chats. in my opinion it's very useful.
It's definitely true that getting the diffs is more useful than just seeing the one-line edit comment (which is why I get email for every edit).
(sidebar - I'm only guessing at the use from the example - which has your email address as the target - but couldn't you just subscribe to "all pages+trivial edits" to get the same effect? Apologies if I've misunderstood what it does)
Unfortunately that doesn't protect against spam or malicious edits; an editor can "silence" those change messages. they can't silence these ones.
- --j.