Hi All,

Back in 2016 it was decided that notifications go to the separate mailing
list [email protected]. See [1]. And looking at latest numbers
reported regarding subscriptions to our mailing lists, we have:

   - user@: 926
   - dev@: 574
   - commits@: 218
   - notifications@: 78

The numbers regarding user@, dev@ and notifications@ are from 2018-06-20,
and the number regarding notifications@ is from 2018-03-20, see [2].

The numbers indicate that about 14% of our contributor potential subscribed
to the dev@ sees these notifications about bugs and improvements, and less
than 9%  of our greater community  (subscribed to user@) are reached. And
when we factor in the impact of PMC members and committers (I can only
guess how many of those have subscribed) on notifications@) the ratios are
even worse.

The effect of the low number of subscriptions to notifications@ is that we
don't reach our potential and that we don't see the input of dev@ and user@
subscribers, leading to an overload of those working tickets.

Did we take a wrong turn back in 2016? And should we not revert the
resolution of the vote to have notifications go back to dev@ to get more
contributions (potentially leading to more - active - committers that share
and lessen the work load?

What do you think?


[1] [VOTE] Create a "notifications" mailing list
<https://ofbiz.markmail.org/message/6hlbap7a6cam3rm2?q=%22%5BVOTE%5D+Create+a+%22notifications%22+mailing+list+%22+list:org%2Eapache%2Eofbiz%2Edev+order:date-forward>



Best regards,

Pierre Smits

*Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President*
*Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member*
Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer
*Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without privileges)
since 2008*
Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer

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