Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Björn,

Bjoern Michaelsen schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Looking at:
>
>   http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html
>
> depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on there. As the writer of
> mail forward I have been repeatedly asked if we can kill this spam.
>
> I fully agree with this sentiment -- the dev-list should be taylored to be
> inviting to a wide audience of volunteer contributors and not only to those
> hardcore contributors who are full-time sponsored developers. I dont think the
> ESC is the right place to decide this as it is overwhelmingly filled with the
> second.
>
> So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing to kill the mail
> spammage? If so:
>
> - could this be mitigated by a separate gerrit-patches mailing list?
> - could this be mitigated by a daily digest of "gerrit news"?
> - could this be mitigated by other means?

I have some areas of interest, where I want to be informed about ongoing 
development. (And sometimes I'm able to point to problems.)  A separate 
mailing list would be fine me.

Kind regards
Regina