Improving trac notifications

[Matthew Pickering]

Herbert now seems to have applied the patch. Hopefully this will improve
the email situation for everyone.

Matt
On 20 Jan 2016 1:15 pm, "Matthew Pickering" <matthewtpickering at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I attach a patch which should improve the notifications.
>
> Here is an example of the new output.
>
> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/HdlVbQt4/
>
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Matthew Pickering
> <matthewtpickering at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Have you had any chance to think about this yet Herbert?
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:
> >> Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> I subscribe to the ghc-tickets[1] mailing list which provides updates
> >>>> to all trac tickets. This is very useful, however when a ticket
> >>>> description is updated the whole description is included in the email
> >>>> which makes it hard to see what actually changed. The web interface
> >>>> shows a nice diff[2] of the changes, I think it would be good if
> >>>> emails could also include a diff rather than the current quite useless
> >>>> output.
> >>>>
> >>> I think this would be a great improvement. I, for one, am quite guilty
> >>> of incrementally editing ticket descriptions and the current email
> >>> notifications are nearly useless in this case.
> >>>
> >>>> After a bit of investigation, it appears that the easiest way to
> >>>> achieve this is apply a simple patch to our copy of trac. The current
> >>>> format is hard coded on line 558 in this module, it seems easy to
> >>>> modify this section to instead provide a diff.
> >>>>
> >>> Herbert, perhaps we could do something along these lines?
> >>>
> >> Ping.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> - Ben
>
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