I strongly suggest to stay with the split between notifications@ and dev@.
It makes the dev@ discussions a lot better to follow, these would drown in the Jira notifications. I suspect that we would make users unsubscribe dev@ if we would have notifications@ in there also.
If people are interested in getting the notifications, they can subscribe anytime. It might be reasonable to encourage people in the dev@/user@ lists to subscribe there if we believe they are not aware of the notifications@ list.
Regards, Michael Brohl ecomify GmbH - www.ecomify.de Am 25.04.19 um 12:20 schrieb Pierre Smits:
Hi All,
Back in 2016 it was decided that notifications go to the separate mailing
list notifications@ofbiz.a.o. See [1]. And looking at latest numbers
reported regarding subscriptions to our mailing lists, we have:
- user@: 926
- dev@: 574
- commits@: 218
- notifications@: 78
The numbers regarding user@, dev@ and notifications@ are from 2018-06-20,
and the number regarding notifications@ is from 2018-03-20, see [2].
The numbers indicate that about 14% of our contributor potential subscribed
to the dev@ sees these notifications about bugs and improvements, and less
than 9% of our greater community (subscribed to user@) are reached. And
when we factor in the impact of PMC members and committers (I can only
guess how many of those have subscribed) on notifications@) the ratios are
even worse.
The effect of the low number of subscriptions to notifications@ is that we
don't reach our potential and that we don't see the input of dev@ and user@
subscribers, leading to an overload of those working tickets.
Did we take a wrong turn back in 2016? And should we not revert the
resolution of the vote to have notifications go back to dev@ to get more
contributions (potentially leading to more - active - committers that share
and lessen the work load?
What do you think?
[1] [VOTE] Create a "notifications" mailing list
<https://ofbiz.markmail.org/message/6hlbap7a6cam3rm2?q=%22%5BVOTE%5D+Create+a+%22notifications%22+mailing+list+%22+list:org%2Eapache%2Eofbiz%2Edev+order:date-forward>
Best regards,
Pierre Smits
*Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President*
*Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member*
Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer
*Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without privileges)
since 2008*
Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer
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