Bug 243793 – Need an equivalent of webkit-changes mail list for GitHub

• Status: NEW
• Component: Tools / Tests

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

The webkit-changes mailing lists was very useful in a number of scenarios. The same things can be achieved in other ways with git, but less efficiently or elegantly.

- look at changes as they are being landed;
- search for changes by keyword using mail client;
- efficiently step through changes in an identified regression or progression range.

Having SVN revisions and location of changes in titles was particularly useful. E.g. "[295779] trunk/Source/WebCore/accessibility" was the last of those. With GitHub not showing identifiers prominently, email archive could be part of the solution (although we should also have a history view on commits.webkit.org).

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/98466544>

[Brandon]

Github does appear to offer email notification about commits.

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/managing-repository-settings/about-email-notifications-for-pushes-to-your-repository

(In reply to Brandon from comment #2)
> Github does appear to offer email notification about commits.
> 
> https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-
> and-features/managing-repository-settings/about-email-notifications-for-
> pushes-to-your-repository

That is a little light on details, specifically in regard to whether notifications can include the entire content of the change (rather than just a commit message and a link to a website).

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

We've enabled GitHub emails for now. The first few went in batches, but it should be real time now.

Still need a better solution:
- need identifier in the title, not a hash;
- need full content (up to a certain limit);
- don't need "[WebKit/WebKit]" in the title.