I see your point, sending emails with every change to issue certainly keeps every- one in the loop, but are folks interested in all the minor comments that go through issue life-cycle? In my opinion bug tracker should not turn into discussion forum. The comments if any with respect to issues in bug tracker should be limited to information that will converge soon like steps to reproduce an issue or asking for more details , however if comments turn into philosophical issues about bug's scope or software's behavior, I would say other developers will want to be involved. This generally leads to a wider discussion and would diverge for some time before it converges and mailing lists are better suited for this communication. Let that communication be brought to the mailing list and when it converges a link to the thread should be provided in the issue with summary of conclusion.
Moving Jira to separate mailing list may be a solution but any issue that requires wider discussion should still be brought to main mailing list Animesh -----Original Message----- From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 11:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Adjust JIRA to send out less mails (e.g. only about issue creation, status changes etc.) On Fri, Dec 7, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Animesh Chaturvedi wrote: > > I agree this helps in making communication from Jira more effective. > David, Joe do you have administrator privileges to adjust the > notification emails from Jira? I'm actually -1 on this. I see comments coming from Jira as being important, and I don't see that anyone who *may* be interested in an issue automatically setting it to "watch" or whatever based on the initial ticket. I seem to recall a proposal to move Jira messages to a separate list, which might be an acceptable substitute - but there should be a list where all Jira messages are sent. The problem about accidental changes to Jira sounds really annoying, but that should be reported to the Atlassian folks rather than doing a workaround that means people subscribed to the list won't see important additions to tickets. Best, jzb > Animesh > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 12:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Adjust JIRA to send out less mails (e.g. only > about issue creation, status changes etc.) > > + 1 > > On Dec 6, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Wolfram Schlich > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > I propose to change the ASF JIRA config for the CLOUDSTACK project > > in a way that it doesn't send out mails to -dev on *every* change, > > especially for description edits, comment edits, comment additions > > etc. and only do it for important events, like issue creation, > > status updates, assignee changes etc. > > > > It's pretty easy to accidentally click on the description area > > (which makes an editable text area appear and pre-selects all text) > > and to delete or replace all text with a single keystroke. If you > > click outside the text area then, the changes get saved and > > instantly mailed to -dev. > > > > I agree that transparency and awareness about bug reports is very > > important, but probably not everybody on -dev is interested in any > > change to any issue, so just sending out the important notifications > > to -dev and allowing people to add themselves as watchers to a JIRA > > issue if they are interested in particular ones could reduce the > > number of uninteresting mails for most people. > > > > Cheers, > > Wolfram > -- Joe Brockmeier [email protected] Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
