Killing the gerrit to dev-list spam ...

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Thorsten I think as well you forgot a useful feature being able to reply to
the patch sets through an email as I had previously mentioned.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Thorsten Behrens <
thb at documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> > On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:16:51AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> > > And then people will cross-post,
> >
> > Why? I dont see anyone posting to the gerrit list directly at
> > all. If you want you comment on that do it in a comment on gerrit
> > (send via email or whatever).  This is what people are doing right
> > now -- I rarely see someone to reply on a a gerrit mail on the
> > dev-list (and that is a Good Thing as replying on the dev-list keeps
> > the stuff invisible on gerrit).
> >
> Ok - but then I see even less reason for another list, if it is
> read-only. Gerrit already lets me get email for any number of events,
> with filters & all. So if additional action is necessary anyway -
> which subscribing to a 2nd list is - why not suggest to everyone
> interested to customize his or her own private gerrit firehose?
>
> > The folks on the dev-list are already missing more than half of the
> > discussion as as Lionel notes the mailing list does not get the
> > comments -- which it where almost ~all the interesting stuff
> > happens. So the firehose we have right now is sprinkling you enough
> > to get wet, but not enough to get clean.
> >
> Sure. But it seems people appreciate the occasional email poke about
> new patches - why else was there the suggestion to have a daily digest
> from the gerrit list?
>
> > Subscribing a second list is not a lot of effort -- probably a lot
> > less effort than the custom filtering ~everyone is doing right now,
> > while still having to poll gerrit to see the comments (which are the
> > relevant bits).
> >
> I'm with you that the current situation leaves something to be
> desired. I just disagree with the proposed solution, which in my mind
> does not help anyone with deeper interest in LibreOffice hacking -
> they'd have to subscribe to two lists, get even more email, and need
> even more filtering to stay afloat.
>
> To keep this constructive, my alternative proposal would be:
>
>  - cut down current gerrit email somewhat, to an acceptable level
>    * it seems there is ~consensus that at least new patches should be
>      notified to the list
>  - educate folks on how to make use of gerrit's Watch / Notification
>    feature - it should be possible to get the equivalent of the
>    proposed new list setup individually, no?
>  - encourage to have larger discussions on the dev list - hackers
>    watching such a discussion on gerrit could simply fwd the
>    notification email to the dev-list. That hopefully prevents the
>    'oh, decision $foo happened on that other list' argument, and
>    ghettoization into pro-hackers and volunteer hackers lists.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Thorsten
>
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Jonathan Aquilina
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