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On Aug 15, 2016, at 6:48 PM, Brandon Williams 
<dri...@gmail.com<mailto:dri...@gmail.com>> wrote:

So will I, if that happens, which has never happened in the last ~7 years.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Jeff Jirsa 
<jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com<mailto:jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com>>
wrote:


On 8/15/16, 2:15 PM, "Marvin Humphrey" 
<mar...@apache.org<mailto:mar...@apache.org>> wrote:

Julian Hyde, who made the proposal, is active in the Apache Incubator ...
  I propose that when a JIRA is created, we send an email to both dev@
and
  issues@. This will be an extra 40 emails per month on the dev list.
I am
  really cautious about increasing the number of messages on the dev
list,
  because I think high-volume lists discourage part-time contributors,
but I
  think this change is worthwhile. It will make people aware of
  conversations that are happening and if it helps to channel
conversations
  onto JIRA cases it could possibly even REDUCE the volume on the dev
list.


That's a useful example. However, that's a project with 30-40 issues per
month (1300 over its lifetime) - Cassandra is sitting at 244 in the past 30
days, 12000 over its lifetime.

I think a lot of us part-time contributors appreciate efforts to increase
visibility and certainly welcome growing the project by making it easier to
recruit and retain more contributors, but is the noise of 10 more new email
threads per day going to get into the "high volume lists discourage
part-time contributors" range Julian discussed?

I'm a part time contributor. If this list gets ~10 threads per day with
2-3 replies each, I'm going to have to start filtering it out of necessity
(because I can't keep up with that volume).




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