>From a developer pov, I've been finding our current release rather difficult >to follow on the mailing list. I appreciate Chip's work in sending daily >updates on what's been done. I've been relying on it to monitor the release >progress but I wonder if this can be done more automatically.
I wonder if we can do the following: - Tag all emails about release 4.0 with something like "[ASFCS40]". This is to allow developers to easily identify 4.0 chains and prioritize it. - Treat the release as a release. That means everything that needs to be done should have bugs in JIRA with target release specified as 4.0. Then people can appropriately update on what they're doing and we can also search through Jira. I don't know if this can be done, it would also be nice to have Jira send out an email to the list with the appropriate subject tag to inform the list that a bug has been updated. - If an email to the mailing list has content intended for a certain person, add that person's email to the cc list? (not sure if this violates some sort of privacy policy). I for example, have filters that says if my email is on the to/cc/bcc lines, put it to higher priority. --Alex
