+1 this will remove the noise for most users On Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 17:27 David Sidrane <david.sidr...@nscdg.com> wrote:
> +1 > > >* notificati...@nuttx.apache.org: For all notifications from GitHub, > GitBox, Confluence, Jira, etc., etc., etc. > > But I would separates commits@ from notifications@ > > I made similar suggestions but it appears flood has swept away the key > points. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Hartman [mailto:hartman.nat...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 7:16 AM > To: dev@nuttx.apache.org > Subject: Re: User Email Account > > On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 9:34 AM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > There have been quite a few NuttX users who have been put of by the > > volume and content of emails on this list. December is not quite over > > and there have been close to 850 emails so far this month. And the > > majority of the community is only interested is discussion technical > > issues and do not even care about the project-oriented content. > > > > So I wonder, would it be good to have a u...@nuttx.apache.org mail list > > just for user-facing questions? I see that many other projects have > > such an email account. This would allow people to have simple > > discussions about the OS without the organizational/political content. > > Such an email would be a replacement for the Google email list. > > dev@nuttx.apache.org is not. > > > > Does this sound like good idea? Or should should we continue to force > > users to wad through 100s of emails that they do not way to see? > > Yes, we didn't anticipate so many emails! > > It's good that we have a lot of participation but we did get quite a > few complaints about volume. > > Perhaps an arrangement like this would allow people to take control of > the situation: > > * dev@nuttx.apache.org: For development of NuttX itself, including > organizational discussions. > > * u...@nuttx.apache.org: For users of NuttX, who are usually > developers themselves, but they're downstream developers who use NuttX > in other products. > > * notificati...@nuttx.apache.org: For all notifications from GitHub, > GitBox, Confluence, Jira, etc., etc., etc. > > (By the way, I expect that once the dust settles, we have consensus on > a workflow, and we "find our groove," the volume of organizational > emails should drop substantially and most emails on dev will center > around technical discussions once again. But it might take a while...) > > Thoughts? > Nathan >
