Hi Dave,
Thank you very much ... highly appreciated
:-)
Chris
Am 08.05.19, 21:26 schrieb "Dave Fisher" <dave2w...@comcast.net>:
Hi -
I’ve submitted INFRA-18350 Gitbox - Improve Generated Email Subjects
I’ve suggested a shorter, more consistent email subject. Threading is being
worked on slowly.
Regards,
Dave
> On May 8, 2019, at 7:15 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> I find it nearly impossible to follow GitHub (GitBox) emails. I know
Infra has done some work on threading these which has improved the situation.
More needs to be done to improve the subjects. Perhaps we can also create
digest emails.
>
> For JIRA I guess since I’ve used JIRA off and on since JIRA version 1 AND
it is easier to have a meaningful subject I’m less concerned.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 8, 2019, at 4:24 AM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>> I agree that Jira emails have been there for quite some time.
>> It seems as more projects are starting to discuss things in jira.
>> What I'm more referring to is that with the jira issues, it would be
great if the title of these emails could be stripped down drastically.
>> Could imagine the email of the user doing something being used as sender
and for example strip down the whole "JIRA Christofer Dutz commented on
PLC4X-0815: yadda yadda" to something like "PLC4X-0815: yadda yadda (New
comment)"
>> It's all this nonsense prefix to the interesting part of the mail title
I'm mostly criticizing.
>> Besides the lack of content in the GitHub emails, which is a second
issue for me.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 08.05.19, 12:05 schrieb "Lars Francke" <lars.fran...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> I partially agree with you.
>>
>> I agree with Github pull requests. They are hard to follow and hard to
read
>> (and I don't only mean the mails but also on the site itself).
>>
>> I disagree with the Jira mails though. I wouldn't really know how to
>> improve those and I like that the discussion is part of the issue
itself
>> and I don't agree that this has changed recently. Jira discussions have
>> been happening like this for years at least in the projects I'm
working on,
>> so nothing really has changed there. They can't really put much
content in
>> the subject?
>>
>> I also dislike that it's getting harder to keep track of things with
>> Github + Jira. There are open Jira issues with "Pending Review" (or
>> similar) state and there are open Pull requests where there used to be
only
>> one place.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions on how to improve this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Lars
>>
>> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:13 AM Christofer Dutz
<christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have noticed in a lot of projects I am involved in, that my active
>>> participation has dropped with more and more communities shifting to
>>> discuss things in jira and using github code reviews.
>>>
>>> Usually I used the title of emails to decide on which discussions I
should
>>> follow … this worked great till all topics sort of start with:
>>>
>>> [jira][someoperation][somproject-someissueid] some description
>>>
>>> Or even worse:
>>>
>>> [GitHub] [someproject] someone commented on a change in pull request
>>> #someid: some description
>>>
>>> …
>>>
>>> Is it just me, or do you also have problems mass-scanning mailinglists
>>> with these titles in most of their emails?
>>> I mean … I am currently following about 30-40 email lists and I really
>>> have to be efficient in keeping up to date.
>>>
>>> For me I think it’s really damaging as I am not willing to manually go
>>> through all the Jira issues and github pull requests or github issues to
>>> scan through masses of emails to find the usually minimal information
they
>>> contain.
>>> Especially github reviews really piss me off as the net information
>>> content for each of these emails is minimal their use is minimal as the
>>> context isn’t contained and I have to click on 10 emails to get the
point
>>> of one single review.
>>>
>>> I think it’s great to be open to changes, but we really have to ensure
we
>>> don’t lose what has been good.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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