Christofer, I have to agree, the projects I have been involved with are getting harder to follow. Too much noise in the signal. However, I do not have any constructive suggestions at this time.
I keep thinking there could be an app/tool that .... but then I remember Claude's Law:"There is no first world problem that can not be made worse by an app." Claude On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:13 AM Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have noticed in a lot of projects I am involved in, that my active > participation has dropped with more and more communities shifting to > discuss things in jira and using github code reviews. > > Usually I used the title of emails to decide on which discussions I should > follow … this worked great till all topics sort of start with: > > [jira][someoperation][somproject-someissueid] some description > > Or even worse: > > [GitHub] [someproject] someone commented on a change in pull request > #someid: some description > > … > > Is it just me, or do you also have problems mass-scanning mailinglists > with these titles in most of their emails? > I mean … I am currently following about 30-40 email lists and I really > have to be efficient in keeping up to date. > > For me I think it’s really damaging as I am not willing to manually go > through all the Jira issues and github pull requests or github issues to > scan through masses of emails to find the usually minimal information they > contain. > Especially github reviews really piss me off as the net information > content for each of these emails is minimal their use is minimal as the > context isn’t contained and I have to click on 10 emails to get the point > of one single review. > > I think it’s great to be open to changes, but we really have to ensure we > don’t lose what has been good. > > What do you think? > > Chris > > > -- I like: Like Like - The likeliest place on the web <http://like-like.xenei.com> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
