On 10/4/05, Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 16:42 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: > > On 10/4/05, Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I guess it is, but usually it is much quicker to send the patch > > > directly, and when that doesn't work, add it to bugzilla :) > > > > Well, I guess there's a number of poeple that do this but to me it > > sounds like a scary slippery slope that could lead to things getting > > out of hand, especially with this statement of yours (just imagine if > > everyone starts bypassing bugzilla and posts all patches to > > d-d-l--you've suggested that it's effective in some sense or another). > > > I did it this way, because for years, in the Evolution team, we found > out patches got lost in Bugzilla, whereas having them sent to a list > (evolution-patches@, not the main list), made them more visible to us, > the developers. Of course, if that behaviour is not acceptable, I'll > just submit my patches to bugzilla. > > I am not going to discuss whether that's a good idea or not, since we > already had that discussion for Evolution for weeks, but in my > experience, people tend to pay more attention to mailing lists than to > bugzilla. > > Maybe we want a desktop-devel-patches@ list?
Yeah, it's definitely an issue that would be great to improve, whether by creating mailing lists for each module, creating a desktop-devel-patches@ list, listing the maintainers better, getting better patch queries, having automated patch reminders from bugzilla in some not-overwhelming-but-condensed way so that people actually look at them, or whatever, it's something we should think about (Olav and I have discussed a number of ideas on the bugzilla side of things and I'll try to be helping him out with some of them sometime soon...) > > Of course, I'm just one of the jerks that thinks d-d-l volume is way > > too high... ;-) Seriously, though, I'd personally prefer if d-d-l > > was used for discussions that can't be contained to a single module. > > > yes, you are right. Maybe each project should have their own lists for > this sort of things? In fact, some modules in GNOME CVS have no > MAINTAINERS file, so it is very difficult to find out who are those > maintainers, and thus the first thought is to send it to d-d-l, and thus > its volume increases. We're trying to at least keep the maintainers up to date on the wiki, e.g. http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen/Desktop. That is one thing that may help you with things like this. Olav and I have some more ideas for improving bugzilla that may help with this as well, and I intend to help with it soon... Cheers, Elijah _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list