Hi, Looking at:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html depending on time of day you find 50-90% patch mails on there. As the writer of mail forward I have been repeatedly asked if we can kill this spam. I fully agree with this sentiment -- the dev-list should be taylored to be inviting to a wide audience of volunteer contributors and not only to those hardcore contributors who are full-time sponsored developers. I dont think the ESC is the right place to decide this as it is overwhelmingly filled with the second. So, is there anyone who is _not_ a sponsored developer opposing to kill the mail spammage? If so: - could this be mitigated by a separate gerrit-patches mailing list? - could this be mitigated by a daily digest of "gerrit news"? - could this be mitigated by other means? I think the drowning of the list with automated patch mail is really hurting us (as did the patch mails before). Note that this does: - not mean we should weaken the requirements for the list to be clearly about development and related to code only - not mean that it is evil to send a patch to the list (although its a bit misguided given how gerrit simplifies and enables things ;) ) I was forced to do the mail forward thingie to accomodate migration of antiquiated workflows -- I was never very happy with it and really embarrased to defend it when I would have never done it like that myself. Opinions? Best, Bjoern _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
