On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > 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.
Our volume of mail has increased considerably. And it is getting harder to keep up. > > 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. I've found the existing Jira instance to be unusable. The Jira instance is essentially a bug tracker for Citrix CloudPlatform, and that makes it very difficult to use for CloudStack. On top of that, there is no v4.0 release, and most bugs likely have a both a corresponding CCP and ACS release that are different. I am desperately working to get the bug content ready for migration, but it's still very much a work in progress. If it wasn't for the historical data, which is valuable, I'd advocate just starting with a fresh Jira project at the ASF. > - 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. > No reason that can't be done. --David
