Re: [Cooker] Bugzilla posts absolutely nescessary?

[Vincent Danen]

On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 08:37 PM, Nelson Bartley wrote:

I'm not sure if this has been brought up before but I'm going to ask.

Is it absolutely necessary to have all bugzilla updates sent to the
cooker list? The reason I ask is I currently keep a local copy of all
messages I've received on the cooker list for at least the last year (I
had almost 2 years stored until a stray delete command went ary)

Yes, it is. And I'll tell you why. Once bugzilla is utilized like it should be, most posts will come from bugzilla on this list. The number of questions/comments/etc. on the list will be reduced because it is going through bugzilla. The mailing list is a means of keeping track of what is happening in bugzilla.

Remember, instead of reporting bugs directly to the list, they're being reported to bugzilla. The same amount of "noise" is going on, it's just being routed a different way.

This is a much better solution. Instead of reports being missed/ignored on cooker, they're being stored in bugzilla. Better than searching archives. Better for seeing what bugs have been resolved, and which haven't. Offers a lot more accountability for everyone. This is actually a cleaner solution than what we had before.

If bugzilla reports were not cc'd to the list, people would be spending more time searching bugzilla to see if something was reported. Bugzilla is slow and clumsy. By cc'ing it to cooker, cooker readers can see immediately what is being filed in bugzilla.

Currently I greatly look forward to reading the cooker list, however
with all of these bugzilla reports ending up there I'm finding cooker to
be filled more with bugzilla then with questions and problems of cooker
users.

It's the same thing, just in a "canned" format. Really, there is little difference. There is just a means of accounting in place now.

If this policy isn't about to change, please let me know so I can
discontinue my subscription. At this rate I'm better off just checking
bugzilla every few days to see what's going on. It will save on my
bandwidth.

I don't think it will change. It shouldn't change. This is a much better system.

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