So will I, if that happens, which has never happened in the last ~7 years. On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Jeff Jirsa <jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com> wrote:
> > On 8/15/16, 2:15 PM, "Marvin Humphrey" <mar...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Julian Hyde, who made the proposal, is active in the Apache Incubator … > > I propose that when a JIRA is created, we send an email to both dev@ > and > > issues@. This will be an extra 40 emails per month on the dev list. > I am > > really cautious about increasing the number of messages on the dev > list, > > because I think high-volume lists discourage part-time contributors, > but I > > think this change is worthwhile. It will make people aware of > > conversations that are happening and if it helps to channel > conversations > > onto JIRA cases it could possibly even REDUCE the volume on the dev > list. > > > > That’s a useful example. However, that’s a project with 30-40 issues per > month (1300 over its lifetime) – Cassandra is sitting at 244 in the past 30 > days, 12000 over its lifetime. > > I think a lot of us part-time contributors appreciate efforts to increase > visibility and certainly welcome growing the project by making it easier to > recruit and retain more contributors, but is the noise of 10 more new email > threads per day going to get into the “high volume lists discourage > part-time contributors” range Julian discussed? > > I’m a part time contributor. If this list gets ~10 threads per day with > 2-3 replies each, I’m going to have to start filtering it out of necessity > (because I can’t keep up with that volume). > > > >
