> Is it possible to disable this feature? Is there any way to do it?
On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:22 AM Ming Wen <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, Christopher, > Thank you for sharing the best practices, yes, we should never "@mention" > any teams. > Is it possible to disable this feature? > > Christopher <[email protected]> 于 2020年9月5日周六 上午12:18写道： > > > Hi Devs, > > > > I'm writing in response to the unintentional recent tagging of all > > committers across the ASF on > > https://github.com/apache/apisix/pull/2158 > > This is the latest, but certainly not the first, such occurrence. > > > > The best practice is to simply never tag any teams at all. This will > > avoid tagging the wrong team members. However, even tagging the right > > team members should never be necessary. Here is why: > > > > 1. Tagging forces an extra notification, when normally people only get > > notifications when they choose to. Tagging overrides the choices > > individuals have exercised when choosing to subscribe to repositories > > on GitHub. > > 2. Developers on the team will already see the notice, since activity > > on GitHub is already mailed to developer-controlled mailing lists. > > 3. Tagging the team won't even reach your intended target audience. It > > is not a requirement to be a member of the team on GitHub in order to > > be a developer. So, the team you are trying to mention, is only going > > to be a subset of the team you are actually trying to reach in the > > first place. It won't necessarily include all the committers, and > > certainly won't include non-committer contributors on the project. > > 4. You will never accidentally mention the wrong team, if you never > > attempt to mention any team. > > 5. Teams are used for internal organization of committers on the > > project who happen to also have GitHub accounts registered with > > Apache. They do not necessarily reflect any group that would be > > meaningful to communicate with, such as the full set of committers + > > contributors. > > > > So again, one should never "@mention" any teams... *ever*. It's a bad > > practice. > > (I would also argue that "@mention" for individuals should be used > > sparingly, as frequent usage can be sees as a form of online > > harassment; use your best judgment for those and ask yourself if you > > really need to do it to reach your target audience, before doing it.) > > > > Instead of tagging a team, simply post your comment without the tag, > > and the project developers will already be reached without any extra > > effort. If you don't get a response in a reasonable amount of time, > > the next best thing is to send an email to the project's developer > > mailing list "dev@[project].apache.org" to request their attention. > > > > Please share these best practices with others, if you find it valuable to > > do so. > > > > Thanks, > > Christopher > > > -- *MembPhis* My GitHub: https://github.com/membphis Apache APISIX: https://github.com/apache/incubator-apisix
