Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > > Tim Ellison wrote: >> Is there some way to teach JIRA not to send so much mail? > > Stop using it as a chat room. :)
So what is the right way to use JIRA? - people open an issue, - maybe comment with a test case - maybe attach a patch or two - I may comment on the issue, with comments that are relevant to that specific issue - when I work on it I assign it to me, and say progress started - when I'm done I resolve it - when the reporter has verified it they comment to say so - I close it as verified What steps should I stop doing? >> Every state change produces mail to the world - even though it is likely >> only of interest to the reporter, assignee, and watchers. i.e. any way >> to solve the problem rather than move it ;-) > > Every change should be visible to everyone for maximum transparency, or > so I believe. It would be a pain in the rear if one had to explicitly > sign up for each jira one was interested in. Some people say every JIRA state change / comment is too much 'spam' -- you want to see them all ... > That said, once the VM activity gets really honking, we'll probably need > a second stream for those... Not sure why the VM is special here. Regards, Tim >> Leo Simons wrote: >>> Taking care of this now... >>> >>> I will note that this makes it even more important for committers and >>> active contributors to subscribe to the commits mailing list - a lot of >>> important information is in those jira messages. >>> >>> I will also note that it *also* makes it even more important that Jira >>> is not used for discussion - that really needs to happen here on the >>> mailing list where everyone can track it. The ASF has had some bad >>> experience in the past with too much communication going via the issue >>> tracker; this isn't so much a guideline as it is a pretty hard >>> requirement. >>> >>> - Leo >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:17:45AM -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote: >>>> Mark Hindess wrote: >>>>> Geir, There are quite a lot of JIRA messages these days, perhaps it >>>>> is time to split the JIRA traffic to a separate list with a reply-to >>>>> set to harmony-dev. Or perhaps just have them sent to the commit >>>>> list? >>>> Yes, please... +1e6 >>>> >>>> -Archie >> > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
