Re: Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

Hey all,
so in my eyes the consensus here is the following:
(1) we want to get informed about new stuff to
  - either react/ review it as a regular developer or
  - to keep up with a topic as sparetime contributor
(2) too many automaticly sent mails blur the view for important messages
and discussions

I would be happy with a regular outline every 8 hours in the style of:

> These are the new submissions to gerrit of the last x hours. They have
the following headlines:
> * fix a typo <http://linktogerrit/123>
> * kill OUString::bla <http://linktogerrit/124>
> * some important change  <http://linktogerrit/125>
>
> For more information or to get involved into a discussion please checkout
the provided Gerrit links.
> In addition, the following changes were merged in the last time frame:
> * tricky bug fix <http://linktogerrit/101>
> * simplify life <http://linktogerrit/42>
>
> Did you know that you can configure Gerrit to send you individualized
email overviews? Checkout <http://linktowiki/howto...>.

My suggestion. Would reduce number of mails while still giving the option
to get updates. A little bit like the ESC protocols...

Philipp

PS: I personally have a filter putting mails from Gerrit into a subfolder.
So I do not get distracted while reading the dev-list. However, this leads
to the fact, that I less often check for patch submission that are
interesting to me.


2013/5/4 Bjoern Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com>

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:57:46AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> > Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> > > So removing those who are employed to work on LibreOffice -- which I
> > > expect to be capable to set up their mail filters with a second list
> > > or with a gerrit watch
> > well not so fast with taking away the right to opine - I would rather
> > like us to come to a consensus here, than arbitrarily excluding valid
> > input. After all, the initial proposal came from a paid developer. ;)
>
> Oh, I of course welcome every kind of input, but I prefer to keep these two
> separated as having the dev mailing list manageable is a key factor in
> gaining
> more volunteer contributors, while gaining more salaried developers
> contributing to the project rather depends on other factors.
>
> Best,
>
> Bjoern
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