David W. Van Couvering wrote: > I don't know if any of you have noticed, but it's getting a bit thick > out there on this list. > > I have heard that the Apache Way is to maintain a single list for a > project regardless of how big it is. But has anybody talked to the > veterans over at other big projects like httpd or Tomcat to get some > tips about how they manage the signal-to-noise ratio on their lists? > > How do individual contributors keep up with everything and not miss > things that might be important or relevant to them and their work?
I think as Jean said keeping and changing subject lines to reflect the true discussion is vital. I don't think we do a good job here. I think sometimes we continue a discussion as Jira comments when really it has expanded to be a wider topic than that specific Jira entry. For example there is some discussion about metadata queries and backwards/forwards comptability (I think) but it's hidden in one of the non-descript JBDC 4.0 Jira entries "add blah blah methods to blah blah class". Dan.
