Re: [BuildStream] Proposal: spreading responsibility and maintainership [Was: 1.4 Release timeline]

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan vanberkom codethink co uk>]

Hi Angelos !

On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 07:35 +0000, Angelos Evripiotis wrote:
[...]
> GitLab actually does let you filter the WIP requests in the merge requests UI:
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/work_in_progress_merge_requests.html#filtering-merge-requests-with-wip-status
>
> I updated the contributing guide to underscore the importance of WIP,
> and linked to that documentation:
> https://docs.buildstream.build/CONTRIBUTING.html#merge-requests
>
> For example, here is that MR filter applied to BuildStream:
> https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/buildstream/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&wip=no

Wow, while this is hardly discoverable in the UI, it is really good to
know that they have implemented *something* at least !

> For the notifications, I'm looking at sharing some useful RSS feeds
> for folks that want to stay on top of everything. One of the things it
> could do is separate WIP updates from non-WIP. I think that's probably
> already possible with email filters, although I'm using these RSS
> feeds instead myself.

It's a tough one, I personally like to receive this in my inbox, but
haven't bothered with the tedium of setting up filters in many years
(even if I am subscribed to around a dozen mailing lists, they all just
come to my few inboxes).

Can you share how we would interact with these feeds ? Do we have to
install some feed reader software to use them ? or are there ways we
can get this converted into emails that we can provide easy
instructions on how to subscribe ?

Cheers,
    -Tristan