On Wed, Jan 16, 2013, at 05:43 PM, Edison Su wrote: > Hi all, > I am struggling to read all the emails on dev list everyday, it's > just so many emails. Is it possible, that enable/allow/encourage us > CC to somebody if you think the topic he/she should take a look at? > I think it will save both of us a lot of time.
I've softened my position on this somewhat based on the conversation today in IRC, but I still have misgivings about adopting a "CC someone if they need to look at something." 1) Committers *should read the -dev list*. I understand that it's high volume, and I don't expect people to read every email thoroughly on the off chance that there's a mention of an issue that involves them. There's a lot to be said for judicious use of email filters, threading mail clients, and good mail hygiene of using descriptive subjects, and so forth. I'm concerned that if we get in the practice of CC'ing people, we'll start having (more of) an issue with people expecting to be CC'ed and invited into a conversation. That means we lose their participation in threads that may not be specifically their issue, but they might have something worthwhile to contribute or have concerns that should be voiced. 2) CC'ing people means you have to know who should take a look at something. A new person to -dev who has a question or issue may not know that they should CC someone. If we're going to get into the practice of CC'ing people, I'd like to see every committer have a page on the wiki that gives some insight into what area(s) of CloudStack they can or should be CC'ed on. (There's no reason non-committers cannot do the same, of course. But at a bare minimum, we should do this with folks who have commit privileges.) 3) Personally, I *don't* want to be CC'ed on messages sent to the list. I already subscribe to the list and try to keep up with the mail. Being CC'ed just means that I wind up seeing the message twice - which exacerbates the problem of having too much email to filter through in the first place. All that said - we need to find solutions that work for this community, and I'm willing to give this a try if the consensus is that it will work. Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
