Definitely a good idea. I believe David also suggested that gitbox messages will be redirected to their own pr@ mailing list. There is just too much traffic in dev@
I tried to create the email account at https://selfserve.apache.org/, but it says I have can't do that because I am not a PMC member. We'll have to ask someone else to do this for us.
I will then update the post at the Google group about the new email list.
