I agree this helps in making communication from Jira more effective. David, Joe do you have administrator privileges to adjust the notification emails from Jira?
Animesh -----Original Message----- From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:run...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 12:53 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Adjust JIRA to send out less mails (e.g. only about issue creation, status changes etc.) + 1 On Dec 6, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Wolfram Schlich <li...@wolfram.schlich.org> wrote: > Hey, > > I propose to change the ASF JIRA config for the CLOUDSTACK project in > a way that it doesn't send out mails to -dev on *every* change, > especially for description edits, comment edits, comment additions > etc. and only do it for important events, like issue creation, status > updates, assignee changes etc. > > It's pretty easy to accidentally click on the description area (which > makes an editable text area appear and pre-selects all text) and to > delete or replace all text with a single keystroke. If you click > outside the text area then, the changes get saved and instantly mailed > to -dev. > > I agree that transparency and awareness about bug reports is very > important, but probably not everybody on -dev is interested in any > change to any issue, so just sending out the important notifications > to -dev and allowing people to add themselves as watchers to a JIRA > issue if they are interested in particular ones could reduce the > number of uninteresting mails for most people. > > Cheers, > Wolfram
