On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 06:03:26PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 11/02/20 15:26, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:57:49PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> On 10/30/20 10:16, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > >>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:01:27PM -0400, John Snow wrote: > >>>> In experimenting with my mirror on gitlab though, I was unable to find a > >>>> way > >>>> to configure it to send issue tracker notifications to the email list. A > >>>> move to gitlab would likely mean, then: > >>>> > >>>> 1. The cessation of (automatic) issue tracker mails to the list > >>> > >>> A bot could do this. > >> > >> I think a "bug traffic" mailing list (possibly but not necessarily > >> separate from the main qemu development list) is important. > > > > What benefit is there to a bug traffic mailing list, as opposed to people > > subscribing to direct bug notifications ? In both case people who are > > interested in watching bugs can get the same content in their inboxes. > > People never subscribed to a particular bug can retroactively learn -- > when it turns into an interest for them -- about actions on the bug, > over time. Bug tracker web UIs do not always present such a view. (IOW > it's not interchangeable with retroactively opening the ticket and > reading through it.)
I can't say I've ever come aross a situation where I cared about a bug and found information missing in the web UI that I then found in the mailing list archives. > Additionally, mailing list archives can be imported locally, for > indexing / searching, etc. Nothing beats a local search engine that has > access to years of bug traffic. Google may come somewhat close; bug > trackers' own search functionalities are hopeless in comparison (IME). If you subscribe to the project directly you get local archives which can be indexed & searched too if that's important. This just sounds like fairly niche requirements for which directly subscribing to the project issue tracker will satisfy 99% of the time. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
