684219 - Try Server usability: email subject additions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Joey Armstrong [:joey]]

The subject line on email sent by the try server are mostly in the same format.
When a submission requests to see all messages the client mailbox is a little too generic and the user must drill down into each to find what they are looking for. 

Subject realestate is obviously limited but it would be nice to have a few decorations added to make finding content a little easier.

For the initial message containing: "Thanks for your try submission ...."
  o maybe suffix '- request', '-submit'
  o so it will be easy to find the list of files submitted with a job

For platform logs suffix a simple, generic platform string:
  o [-win]: windows
  o [- mac]: darwin, mac, mac64
  o [- mobile]: android, mamemo, ...

Finally for the 'try:' checkin line added by "hg qref" for the submission.
  o It would be handy to add a short string that could be appended to the subject line for reference.
  o At a minimum being able to specify "bug: xxx" will make it very easy to find a given set of logs when multiple distinct patches are being tested.

Comment 1

[Joey Armstrong [:joey]]

Also if the qref/checkin message were allowed to have multiple fields to specify both a patch comment line and try server arguments derived values would be available and it would save a little work.

When switching between exporting patches for bugzilla and submitting to the try server the checkin comment needs to change each time.

If a delimited format were allowed say:
  "bug xxx - fixing stuff ; try: -b do -e -p all -u all"

Try server email messages could include bug# in the subject line most of the time.
Whatever mechanism is handling message subject line in bugzilla could split on the ';' delimiter and discard the 'try:....' arguments.

This would reduce the number of times users must alter their checkin message to changing try server arguments or logic has changed enough to modify the primary checkin line.

Comment 2

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

Found in triage.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Hasn't been touched in years so it seems like this isn't a very highly wanted feature, closing.