Hi - I’ve submitted INFRA-18350 Gitbox - Improve Generated Email Subjects
I’ve suggested a shorter, more consistent email subject. Threading is being worked on slowly. Regards, Dave > On May 8, 2019, at 7:15 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi - > > I find it nearly impossible to follow GitHub (GitBox) emails. I know Infra > has done some work on threading these which has improved the situation. More > needs to be done to improve the subjects. Perhaps we can also create digest > emails. > > For JIRA I guess since I’ve used JIRA off and on since JIRA version 1 AND it > is easier to have a meaningful subject I’m less concerned. > > Regards, > Dave > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 8, 2019, at 4:24 AM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Lars, >> >> I agree that Jira emails have been there for quite some time. >> It seems as more projects are starting to discuss things in jira. >> What I'm more referring to is that with the jira issues, it would be great >> if the title of these emails could be stripped down drastically. >> Could imagine the email of the user doing something being used as sender and >> for example strip down the whole "JIRA Christofer Dutz commented on >> PLC4X-0815: yadda yadda" to something like "PLC4X-0815: yadda yadda (New >> comment)" >> It's all this nonsense prefix to the interesting part of the mail title I'm >> mostly criticizing. >> Besides the lack of content in the GitHub emails, which is a second issue >> for me. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> Am 08.05.19, 12:05 schrieb "Lars Francke" <lars.fran...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> I partially agree with you. >> >> I agree with Github pull requests. They are hard to follow and hard to read >> (and I don't only mean the mails but also on the site itself). >> >> I disagree with the Jira mails though. I wouldn't really know how to >> improve those and I like that the discussion is part of the issue itself >> and I don't agree that this has changed recently. Jira discussions have >> been happening like this for years at least in the projects I'm working on, >> so nothing really has changed there. They can't really put much content in >> the subject? >> >> I also dislike that it's getting harder to keep track of things with >> Github + Jira. There are open Jira issues with "Pending Review" (or >> similar) state and there are open Pull requests where there used to be only >> one place. >> >> Do you have any suggestions on how to improve this? >> >> Cheers, >> Lars >> >> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:13 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
