On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:26:09AM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Honestly I thought that being able to cope with > large quantities of email--researching new solutions and implementing > them if necessary--was part of job description of doing Debian work,
I don't like this kind of phrasing. It reads like "if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen". Indeed working in Debian does mean coping with a lot of mail. I personally think this is a problem for attracting newer, perhaps younger contributors; I think it has been for a while and I think it will only get worse. Coping strategies for a lot of mail include using decent mail software (which I do); although I would like that not to be a barrier for entry; using mail filters (which I do; I've written elsewhere in this thread how that is not ideal for ITP mail to -devel); and targetting mailing lists: which is what I was proposing. As it happens the list I was proposing already exists; debian-wnpp. So my proposal becomes: we should send a digest mail from debian-wnpp to debian-devel instead of all initial ITP mails as we do today. > +1 It sends the wrong message if we have a bug in commonly used software > on the default desktop that is so severe that people discuss > accommodating this bug with infrastructure changes rather than fixing > the buggy software. For the avoidance of any doubt, I (thread originator) and not doing this: I don't use Evolution and haven't participated in the other thread. -- 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net
