notice that you have an issues@ mailing list and a dev@ one Jira sends everything to issues@ and GH/GitBox sends to dev@: sending to issues@ probably makes more sense
On 2023/02/22 14:58:53 Charles Givre wrote: > HI Christofer, > Thanks for the suggestion. We were in the middle of a release, but thank you > VERY much for this suggestion. I know all of us are probably overwhelmed > with the number of emails we get, so any way to organize and/or reduce that > is greatly appreciated. I submitted a pull request for this change. > (https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2764) Personally, I'd love to disable > the gitbox emails as well. Those are completely useless and merely duplicate > what I already get from github. > > Best, > --C > > > > > On Feb 15, 2023, at 7:41 AM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > while reviewing your projects activity as part of my board duties, I came > > to notice, that the dev-list is in an almost unusable state. > > > > The vast majority of all emails are auto-generated emails from GitHub. > > > > The way the replication is setup per default makes these emails impossible > > to follow and display in any email client I tried to read it on. After a > > lot of persuasion Infra introduced a new feature into the .asf.yml to allow > > custom templates for these auto-generated emails. > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Git+-+.asf.yaml+features#Git.asf.yamlfeatures-CustomsubjectlinesforGitHubevents > > > > In the PLC4X Project we used these settings to drastically reformat the > > subject lines of all GitHub emails. > > > > https://github.com/apache/plc4x/blob/develop/.asf.yaml#L62 > > > > With this we can now read the start of the title in typical columnar > > layouted email clients as well on phones and the clients are able to do > > correct threading. > > > > Perhaps worth discussing to adopt these or similar changes. > > > > The way the list is currently, I doubt anyone is reading it and it makes it > > impossible for outsiders to get started … well … and it makes it hard for > > the board to execute it’s oversight. > > > > As I said in the subject … it’s not an order to change anything, but a > > friendly suggestion. > > > > Chris > >
