[darcs-users] sending to list vs. droundy

[Trent W. Buck]

Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> writes:

> David Roundy wrote:
>> Through gmail magic, if you send a patch to the list, I don't see it,
>> but if you send a patch to me, and someone sends comments on said
>> patch to the list, I see those comments.
>
> This is interestingly non-standard and not something new contributors
> will understand.

At a minimum, it would be a good idea to document this state of affairs
in either the manual or the wiki (or both), in the "hacking on darcs"
section.  Possibly this has already been done, I haven't looked.

> - patches send by darcs send, or directly to the list, and discussion of 
> same, are always seen by patch approvers (you)
>
> As a step in this direction, maybe it would be possible to have your 
> gmail rules pass through any list message containing a patch ?
>
> Then the situation we need to communicate to contributors is: "droundy 
> approves patches. He reads patches and patch discussion but not other 
> list traffic." which is a bit simpler.