On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Schultz, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Jonathan, >> >> What do you mean by "deliver trac tickets to everyone"? >> >> There is some old documentation on how the CF trac system handles e-mail >> notification: >> >> http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/discussion/about-the-cf-trac-ticket-system >> >> In particular: "The mailing lists are arranged in such a way that you can >> choose >> to subscribe to only the discussions of interest to you - or you can >> subscribe >> to the parent list and receive an email for every single message post." >> >> In my experience this is how the trac system has been working -- except that >> I was never able to find the user setting for subscribing to the "parent >> list". >> So like others said, I get trac e-mails only for tickets that I contribute >> to. I am >> subscribed independently to the general discussion list, i.e. "CF-metadata". >> >> If possible, please maintain this degree of specificity. I would much >> prefer to >> not receive all trac e-mails just because I am subscribed to the discussion >> list >> or to individual trac tickets. Thank you. >> >> --Dave > > Agreed! But I have to admit that I wasn't aware of the distinction between > "general" and "track ticket" discussions until recently. My personal view is > that there are too many "specific" discussions on the general list (i.e. all > discussions about specific standard_name entries, for example), but that > there are is important "general" information that is missed, because these > discussions are carried out exclusively in the track tickets system. It is > not trivial to organize the information flow, and ultimately this will always > depend on the discipline of everyone who contributes (and you don't want to > scare people away by imposing too many or too strict rules). Ideally, every > new subject should be brought up once in the general discussion list, but > then it should be assigned a track ticket and people who are interested in > this particular subject can then subscribe. Perhaps this subscription could > be facilitated by a "first response" email which would simply state that the > topic > has been entered into the ticket system and "here is a link to subscribe to > this discussion". (not sure if there is an easy technical solution for this)
trac tickets have a "cc" field which does just that - you are subscribed to that ticket. In this way we would use the "push" media email list and the "pull" media track ticket in a somewhat more transparent and efficient way -- and as a side effect the general email list may become a little more lightweight, which could potentially engage a few more people to listen in and perhaps even contribute. The consequence would of course be that the "discussion" list would become more of a billboard and the actual discussions would take place exclusively in the track ticket system (where it may also be easier traceable). > > Martin > > PS: I know - I still have to open my own track issue... > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH > 52425 Juelich > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich > Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher > Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), > Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, > Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Kennen Sie schon unsere app? http://www.fz-juelich.de/app > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
