blanket portmgr approval vs. non-fixing changes

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 28/06/2016 9:03 PM, Alphons van Werven wrote:
> Maintainers are already notified by e-mail of commits resulting from PRs
> because they are put on the CC list. Maybe it's just me, but I think it
> would be very nice if maintainers were *always* automagically notified of
> *any* commits to their ports, including those subject to blanket approval.

Good idea, as long as people could opt-in/out as appropriate.

> With any luck, such notifications are received in time to prevent (or at
> least limit) wasted time such as in the above case. Moreover, keeping
> maintainers informed also eliminates having to wonder "Ey, what's this
> 'ere then?" the next time they look at their ports. And finally, I'd
> surmise it would also help keeping maintainers abreast of developments in
> the ports infrastructure in general.
> 
> I know that the PR notifications come from BugZilla and not from SVN, so
> what I don't know is how feasible it is rig up something like this, but I
> do know that I for one would quite appreciate something along these lines.

Quite feasible, hit me up off list and we can discuss further :)

./koobs