On the 0x24D day of Apache Harmony Vasily M. Zakharov wrote: > > maybe we adopt a new [tag] for traffic? > > It seems to me, everybody would soon skip it without looking.
You can skip, comitters do not skip, you are happy. Unbelievable? > And those few who wouldn't, read harmony-commits list anyway and see any > changes occuring. > > It's better not to write a mail at all, than write it marking "this is > non-important message, > don't read it" - the result is the same, but the traffic is higher and > more time is spent. > And we already have a list for such "non-important" messages, > harmony-commits. > > Vasily > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to mark ready-to-integrate JIRAs? > > > On Dec 27, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Zakharov, Vasily M wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > There're many issues in our JIRA that can be closed or integrated > > with no much effort. Issues with simple patches but with no > > "patch available" flag set, "Won't Fix" issues, non-bug differences > > are all good examples. > > > > And closing an issue (in a right way) is always good as it allows > > that issue to be forgotten and put off everybody's mind - one problem > > less to think of. > > > > But we have no effective instrument for a contributor to attract > > a committer's attention to a particular small issue. > > The dev list? Please? > > > > > For now the only way to do that is writing to the dev-list, > > which is not very effective - we already have traffic high enough. > > Moreover, that information is only relevant to committers, who are > > minority (though very important) in the list - all other contributors > > would read such a message for nothing, wasting their time. > > Not true! There are lots of benefits to this kind of thing, such as > raising more public awareness about the issue, let people with ideas > review and comment, etc > > > > > The other way used now to attract a committer's attention, is setting > > "Patch available" flag. But I can only set it on my own issues, > > and setting it is probably not appopriate for "Won't Fix" issues. > > > > Probably we could introduce some keyword, for example, FIX_AVAILABLE, > > that contributors could add to their comments to the respective JIRAs > > and committers could search for using conventional JIRA search? > > > > This way the committers' reaction to patches could be faster and > > choosing the right issue to put efforts to would be more well-founded > > and information-based for committers. > > > > What do you think? > > I'm going to be a stick in the mud here - the best way to get > people's attention should be dev list - maybe we adopt a new [tag] > for traffic? > > geir > > > > > Vasily Zakharov > > Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division > -- Egor Pasko
