Re: Improving trac notifications

Ben Gamari writes:

Matthew Pickering writes:

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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.

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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