I already have all my mail setup to filter JIRA emails to another folder so I'm actually okay with JIRA "spamming". However, I can certainly see people who don't have server side filtering getting annoyed by emails spamming them on their devices for example.
I think to resolve David's concern, it just means developers must be conscientious about discussions taking place on -dev. We've been doing pretty good in terms of switching between -user and -dev. I don't see it as a problem for someone to says let's take this to the list on JIRA itself. Some will get drop but I doubt it's that big a deal. I'm actually more concerned that discussions on the list are not captured in JIRA itself so someone looking up a bug doesn't get the context of what has already been discussed about the bug. For that I propose that we tag all bug discussion emails. It would be great if someone who knows smtp to write a script to post to Jira on the appropriate tags. Anyone want to take that on? Until we have that we have to make it a convention that searching for a bug also means a search for the tag in the list to see if it's been discussed. --Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 3:02 PM > 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 5:46 PM, Rohit Yadav <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with Joe, JIRA should keep the same level of verbosity. > > As Alex suggests, a good idea is to move them to a new mailing list (for > commits, jira and review board updates etc.) and people who want to > receive those can join them. Can David or any asf-infra member help us get a > new mailing list for all of that? > > So while I am not inherently opposed to creation of a new list for > jira, review board, etc - I am very worried about the splintering > effect. Development discussions and decisions must happen on the -dev > list. Today some of those are happening in review board and jira, and > today those all circle back to the -dev list. IF Jira was only used as > a task list and seriously policed for that purpose I'd be more > amenable, but I just don't see it happening that way. > > (also as a side note - I have no privs on apmail - so can't help you > there - any officer can use the mlreq form though) > > --David
