Trying to learn from other projects, there is a good reason why projects eventually move to split lists, but in my experience they start with a single list.
Learning to use email clients to manage mail overload is an important part of open source. Learning to manage and review commit messages is an important part of CTR What do other mentors think? Sent from my mobile device. On 22 Oct 2009, at 17:38, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 2009/10/22 Gavin <[email protected]>: >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On >>>> Behalf Of Ross Gardler >>>> Sent: Thursday, 22 October 2009 1:22 AM >>>> To: wookie-dev >>>> Subject: commit messages >>>> >>>> We need to set commit messages to come to this list (Gavin, do you >>>> have the necessary foo for this?) >>> >>> Yes, however, I spotted a wee config error. When I created the lists >>> initially I also created a commits list (it wasn't asked for but I >>> pre-empted). So, that's the first thing, devs will need to >>> subscribe to >>> [email protected] to start receiving them. >> >> Hmmm.... >> >> I'm -1 on a commit specific list, that's why, as champion, I did not >> ask for one. >> >> There is, in my opinion, no sense in splitting commit messages from >> the developer list. All developers should be reading commit messages >> (commit then review) and we should not make it easy for people to >> avoid this responsibility - especially in an incubating project. >> >> There may come a day where the volume of commits or discussion makes >> it sensible to split the lists, but I do not believe that day is >> today. >> >> Ross >> > > I tend to disagree here... One of the main purposes of a incubator > project is to build a community over the existing code, and having a > dev list flooded with all kind of notifications (e.g commits) will > possible discourage new contributors to join the list and possibly > participate.Also, when people are just trying to understand what's > going on with the project (e.g by reading the archives) they will most > likely get lost with 1 or 2 e-mails of dev discussions and 15 of > commit messages. Also, trying to learn from other projects, it might > have a good reason why most if not all projects at ASF have separate > user, dev and commit lists. As for those who like to see them all > together, it's just a matter of one additional subscription, plus > leave all messages on the same folder in your e-mail client. > > Anyway, just my $ 0.02 > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://lresende.blogspot.com/
