updates testing report kind of broke

[mike cloaked]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2011 11:39 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>>
>> Or as intended, because the older reports became less readable due to
>> updates containing N>1 packages. Also see
>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-October/103410.html
>> which sums it up.
>
>  Says someone else doesn't like the new email format either ... we went
> from "less readable" to unreadable ... not sure we gained in that regard :-)
>
>>
>> An alternative is to use rss2email and subscribe to the RSS feeds
>> listed at:  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
>> Then you would get one mail per update, with a proper subject line,
>> including the update "Notes" and links to the tickets. That also
>> makes it much more simple to filter for favourite packages or to
>> move individual updates onto your private todo list.
>
>
>  If there is a nice way to send emails - why not make it part of the
> official emails?
>
>  Now each of us have to go scrape a website to get same info - whereas
> before I glanced at the email - and went to bodhi as needed to learn
> more ...
>
>  I'd prefer the email which had no links and more info than good links
> and less info ...
>
>  Anyway .. thanks for info ...

It is quite possible that some testers, who are pushed for time, may
now feel less inclined to jump through more hoops to find which
packages are relevant to their own testing since you see a set of
lines with code numbers that do not relate to package names - which
possibly could lead to less packages being tested and given karma (and
we can well do without less testing at the moment or into the future)
- on that basis alone it would be a good idea to get the package names
info back into the set of links/lines that appear in the generated
postings again - it would be worth some effort going into it since we
already are short of testing!

-- 
mike c