Jonathan,
But maybe we are behaving differently on GitHub? It seems there's more of a
tendency to make a short remark on GitHub than there was on trac. Is this
inevitable? To keep the noise down, could we limit ourselves to one posting
per issue per day per person, for example, as a guideline?
Could this be because github is easier to use or get an account on? I
always had trouble getting an account on trac for the projects that used
it. As for the limiting yourselves, sounds like you are slowing down
progress so people don't get too many emails? Sounds fishy.
Dave
On 11/8/18 12:12 PM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
Dear Chris et al.
as far as I remember, this is not so different than it was with
TRAC — I remember getting “spammed” with emails about TRAC tickets as
well.
I think we just had a particularly active discussion on gitHub recently...
That is my impression too. There's been no change to what CF is doing, just
the technology, with conventions discussions taking place on GitHub instead
of trac. Both are distributed via the email list.
But maybe we are behaving differently on GitHub? It seems there's more of a
tendency to make a short remark on GitHub than there was on trac. Is this
inevitable? To keep the noise down, could we limit ourselves to one posting
per issue per day per person, for example, as a guideline?
Another way for people to manage to traffic is to change to getting a daily
compendium of the emails, rather than each individually.
I imagine there must be some way to have the creation of new issues
and PRs sent to the list, but not allow the “list user” to participate
in discussions.
We need more investigation of what can be done with GitHub and the email list.
We should relieve Brian of his long-held responsibility for the email list as
soon as we can, by some means.
Best wishes
Jonathan
