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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:50:45 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question
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On 11/12/2009 09:01 AM, David Dillow wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:15 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 11/11/2009 11:45 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>> That's already possible via the git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org email 
>>> list. Anyone can subscribe to it and can procmail process it. It is also 
>>
>> There are a couple of disadvantages with this -- a hera -> vger -> hera
>> bounce, in particular (those two machines are nowhere close to each
>> other, and there can be huge latecy.)  For real-time robots running on
>> hera, a lower-latency mechanism would be useful.
> 
> Change the hook on hera that sends the email to use a local alias that
> includes git-commits-header@vger and a local list that processes on hera
> can subscribe to? That could avoid the bounce...

Not really... a lot of the bounce delay is due to mail processing on
hera itself.

	-hpa

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