[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] Mailing list changes this week

Tom Stellard via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Oct 15 22:12:48 PDT 2019


On 10/15/2019 09:44 PM, Mehdi AMINI wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:33 PM Tom Stellard <tstellar at redhat.com <mailto:tstellar at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     On 10/15/2019 09:24 PM, Mehdi AMINI wrote:
>     > Hi Tom.
>     >
>     > One issue with this is that we don't have a clear "ordering" from linear revision numbers from these emails. Have we looked into continuing to generate our own emails per commits instead so that we control the format?
>     >
> 
>     This actually what we are doing, we are listening for github commit events and
>     then generating our own emails based on the data in the event.  We can format
>     the emails how ever we want, and we tried to match the current SVN format exactly.
> 
> 
> Ah great!
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> 
>     Is the some other information you would like to have in the emails to show the
>     ordering?
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> 
> The only thing I was looking to get was to continue to have a monotonic incrementing integer for the revision instead of the git hash alone: I don't know if `git llvm` has this feature yet but this was discussed a while ago (I don't remember if we just mentioned counting the commits in the repo from the beginning or using an invocation of `git describe` or something derived).
> 

We talked about using `git describe` for this, but this would require that we
add tags to the master branch each time the version number was bumped.  We
discussed this[1] last year, but deferred the decision, since we couldn't get
consensus on the tag name.

-Tom

[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-December/128484.html

> -- 
> Mehdi
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>  
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> 
>     -Tom
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>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > --
>     > Mehdi
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:07 PM Tom Stellard via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hi,
>     >
>     >     We are going to start to switching from SVN commit emails to GitHub commit
>     >     emails this week.  The only real change you should notice is that
>     >     the revision number in the subject will be replaced with a git hash and
>     >     the diff links in the email will point to GitHub.  Otherwise the
>     >     content and format of the email should be the same.
>     >
>     >     We are going to start by rolling this out for the openmp-commits list
>     >     and then once that's working begin migrating the rest of the lists.  If you
>     >     notice any issues with the new emails, please file a bug and mark it
>     >     as a blocker of the github meta-bug (llvm.org/PR39393 <http://llvm.org/PR39393> <http://llvm.org/PR39393>).
>     >
>     >     Thanks,
>     >     Tom
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