On 8/15/05, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/15/05, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only bad part about that is Outlook will still show the "new mail" icon > > on my system tray even if the rule permanently deletes it. I don't know why > > we force all the developers to receive the CVS (subversion) notifications. > > Not all ASF lists do it, some have separate lists for the cvs notifications. >
Personally, I am -1 on separate commit lists for any project that I'm a developer on. Yes, I'm aware that this is not a universally held opinion. Open source is about building communities -- and communities at Apache are about people who care about the *code*, not just the *use* of the code. If you only want to use the code, subscribe to the user list. If you do care about the development of the code, you *should* also care about what commits have occurred -- if you don't, you're not being a responsible member of the development community, performing the review tasks that Hen mentioned. Yes, Jakarta Commons is a slightly unusual beast because it amalgamates quite a few semi-independent communities. But, the reasons we share dev and user mailing lists (encouraging the HttpClient folks to separate is something I regret, in retrospect) are also the same reasons we should all be paying attention to all of the commits. There is not enough "community" on individual subprojects to do reasonable review otherwise. If you don't care enough to filter out the projects you don't care about (or don't work creatively enough to subscribe with a mail client suitable for the task :-), then don't subscribe to the dev list. That's why we have user lists too. Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
