Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Nov 12 2009 - 14:51:40 EST


On 11/12/2009 09:01 AM, David Dillow wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:15 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 11/11/2009 11:45 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>> That's already possible via the git-commits-head@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx email
>>> list. Anyone can subscribe to it and can procmail process it. It is also
>>
>> There are a couple of disadvantages with this -- a hera -> vger -> hera
>> bounce, in particular (those two machines are nowhere close to each
>> other, and there can be huge latecy.) For real-time robots running on
>> hera, a lower-latency mechanism would be useful.
>
> Change the hook on hera that sends the email to use a local alias that
> includes git-commits-header@vger and a local list that processes on hera
> can subscribe to? That could avoid the bounce...

Not really... a lot of the bounce delay is due to mail processing on
hera itself.

-hpa

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