Thorsten I think as well you forgot a useful feature being able to reply to the patch sets through an email as I had previously mentioned.
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Thorsten Behrens < t...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > > On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:16:51AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > > > And then people will cross-post, > > > > Why? I dont see anyone posting to the gerrit list directly at > > all. If you want you comment on that do it in a comment on gerrit > > (send via email or whatever). This is what people are doing right > > now -- I rarely see someone to reply on a a gerrit mail on the > > dev-list (and that is a Good Thing as replying on the dev-list keeps > > the stuff invisible on gerrit). > > > Ok - but then I see even less reason for another list, if it is > read-only. Gerrit already lets me get email for any number of events, > with filters & all. So if additional action is necessary anyway - > which subscribing to a 2nd list is - why not suggest to everyone > interested to customize his or her own private gerrit firehose? > > > The folks on the dev-list are already missing more than half of the > > discussion as as Lionel notes the mailing list does not get the > > comments -- which it where almost ~all the interesting stuff > > happens. So the firehose we have right now is sprinkling you enough > > to get wet, but not enough to get clean. > > > Sure. But it seems people appreciate the occasional email poke about > new patches - why else was there the suggestion to have a daily digest > from the gerrit list? > > > Subscribing a second list is not a lot of effort -- probably a lot > > less effort than the custom filtering ~everyone is doing right now, > > while still having to poll gerrit to see the comments (which are the > > relevant bits). > > > I'm with you that the current situation leaves something to be > desired. I just disagree with the proposed solution, which in my mind > does not help anyone with deeper interest in LibreOffice hacking - > they'd have to subscribe to two lists, get even more email, and need > even more filtering to stay afloat. > > To keep this constructive, my alternative proposal would be: > > - cut down current gerrit email somewhat, to an acceptable level > * it seems there is ~consensus that at least new patches should be > notified to the list > - educate folks on how to make use of gerrit's Watch / Notification > feature - it should be possible to get the equivalent of the > proposed new list setup individually, no? > - encourage to have larger discussions on the dev list - hackers > watching such a discussion on gerrit could simply fwd the > notification email to the dev-list. That hopefully prevents the > 'oh, decision $foo happened on that other list' argument, and > ghettoization into pro-hackers and volunteer hackers lists. > > Cheers, > > -- Thorsten > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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