We can not prevent those not interested in what is happening to
unsubscribe. And with modern mail clients (or online solutions) anyone not
interested to see posting about specific categories (commits, JIRA
notifications) can set filters there to:

   1. have the postings of these categories automatically moved to other
   (sub-)folders, or
   2. have the posting automatically deleted


This is not about those of the community who do not want to be informed or
want to see/do less, but rather about reaching more (potential)
contributors. The implementation of the result of the vote conveniences
those not interested. If we suppose that all of the PMC members and all of
the committers have subscribed to notifications@, then only 11 out of 574
dev subscribers or out of 926 users@ subscribers see stuff regarding OFBiz
issues.

Michael makes the point that those interested should subscribe, leaving it
to them to show interest. But we should turn it around, as it was before,
in order to attract more. More parties to work with (adpoters) and/or to
contribute to have a better product faster.

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


On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 1:59 PM Jacques Le Roux <
jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote:

> I used to have a filter on "(OFBIZ-" to redirect to my OFBiz Jira folder.
> Having a specific list is easier indeed.
>
> Jacques
>
> Le 25/04/2019 à 13:39, Swapnil M Mane a écrit :
> > I am also inline with Michael's comments.
> >
> >
> > - Best Regards,
> > Swapnil M Mane,
> > ofbiz.apache.org
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 4:48 PM Michael Brohl <michael.br...@ecomify.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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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