[Zope-Coders] Test Emails

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Chris Withers writes:
 > Been thinking about the volume of test emails that are ending up in
 > the mailing list archives.
 > 
 > Would people prefer me to:
 > 1. Send all of them as now
 > 2. Send them to a seperate list that people could subscribe to
 > 3. Send them to myself and only squeel publicly when they fail

Another option would be to turn off archiving of these mails, at least
if there are no errors.  For Mailman lists, this can be done by adding
a header:

  X-No-Archive: yes

If this were added to reports of success, people would get the welcome
positive confirmation that things are going well (also good because if
affirms that the tests are actually running).  Failures, the subject
of subsequent discussions, would be archived, since those are
interesting for at least a little longer than the success messages.

Jens Vagelpohl writes:
 > how about they only get sent to any list if there is failures? the 
 > annoying ones are really those that get sent after the tests ran 
 > successfully because there isn't much informational value in them.

Are they annoying in your inbox or just in the archives?  I don't mind
getting positive confirmation that the tests were run to completion.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation