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Make datatracker mails more managable (or less noisy) #2316

Open ietf-svn-bot opened 7 years ago

ietf-svn-bot commented 7 years ago

type_enhancement | by jhaas@pfrc.org

Copying an email with Henrik: Henrik,

Are the emails that come from the data tracker something that's in the code maintained by those working on the datatracker software?

If so, has there been any discussion about how to make them less chatty?

To give an example:

Hello,

This is a notification from the Personal ID list of jhaas@pfrc.org.

Document: draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe/

Change: Uploaded new revision

Best regards,

  The Datatracker draft tracking service
  (for the IETF Secretariat)

Hello,

This is a notification from the Personal ID list of jhaas@pfrc.org.

Document: draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe/

Change: Request for posting confirmation emailed to previous authors: Stefano Previdi , idr-chairs@ietf.org, Saikat Ray , Keyur Patel , Jie Dong , Clarence Filsfils

Best regards,

  The Datatracker draft tracking service
  (for the IETF Secretariat)

Hello,

This is a notification from the Personal ID list of jhaas@pfrc.org.

Document: draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe/

Change: New version available: draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe-13.txt

Best regards,

  The Datatracker draft tracking service
  (for the IETF Secretariat)

Hello,

This is a notification from the Personal ID list of jhaas@pfrc.org.

Document: draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe/

Change: New version approved

Best regards,

  The Datatracker draft tracking service
  (for the IETF Secretariat)

So, for the same document, we're seeing four state transitions. Only the final one is of interest to someone that's just monitoring to see if something's new. The rest are useful to help see whether stuff might be "stuck" for some reason.

Similarly, transitions for documents going through IESG review get very noisy as well, but for different reasons.

I haven't gotten around to implementing body level filtering to try to pull out these transitions, but that's eventually where I think this might take me. Mostly I've just been leaning on my delete key a lot.

What might be somewhat more helpful is including something in the message headers, or even subject, that provides enough information to safely do filtering. An X-Datatracker-State-Reason or something similar perhaps.

-- Jeff

Issue migrated from trac:2316 at 2022-03-04 05:53:29 +0000

ietf-svn-bot commented 7 years ago

@rjsparks@nostrum.com changed priority from n/a to minor

ietf-svn-bot commented 4 years ago

@rjsparks@nostrum.com _changed status from new to under_review_