Re: Revisiting the utility of branch notifications

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:54:14 +0100
Christian Kirbach via gnome-doc-list <gnome-doc-list gnome org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I believe this topic is also of interest for gnome-i18n.
> As a translator I actually used to have an email filtre that deleted
> the branch notifications. The sheer volume of messages lowers my
> overview about all messages in my IMAP folder, and they are of little
> use for me as a translator.
>
> If you happen to work on master/HEAD just about when it gets branched,
> it is easy to merge your translation work on master also into the new
> stable branch. That is an easy cherry-pick for those familiar with git,
> since fresh branches differ little to none for documentation. In
> Vertimus you can easily feed your final work also into the new branch
> for the same reason.

I think that for L10n coordination specifically, having those email
notifications is helpful for whoever configures new branches for modules in
Damned Lies. 

Feel free to move it to gnome-i18n, though.

Cheers,
pk