I think another interesting question would be: Are we not having discussions we need to have or do we just not need to have those discussions and that's why we haven't had them? I.e., are the changes being made not sweeping architectural changes vs feature additions/bug fixes??
Coming back from that hypothetical, I think the low email count could also be an expected result of the fairly low dev throughput (at least in some way). I wonder if there's something stopping people contributing to discussions beyond general project activity? Additionally, I think it's reasonable to expect that most code discussions would take place on JIRA or Github with a focus around particular tickets or pull requests given our workflow. Here's some activity info for consideration: Commit activity since 2015-01-01 excluding merge commits: | -> git shortlog -s -e -n --no-merges b440baf..HEAD 43 Michael Joyce <[email protected]> 12 Kim Whitehall <[email protected]> 7 Kim Whitehall <[email protected]> 1 Huikyo Lee <[email protected]> 1 huikyole <[email protected]> Commit activity since 2014-05-01 excluding merge commits: | -> git shortlog -s -e -n --no-merges 698f1ba..HEAD 281 Michael Joyce <[email protected]> 30 Kim Whitehall <[email protected]> 19 Maziyar Boustani <[email protected]> 19 Lewis John McGibbney <[email protected]> 16 Cameron Eugene Goodale <[email protected]> 14 Ross Laidlaw <[email protected]> 12 Kim Whitehall <[email protected]> 3 Shakeh Elisabeth Khudikyan <[email protected]> 1 Denis Nadeau <[email protected]> 1 Paul Michael Ramirez <[email protected]> 1 huikyole <[email protected]> 1 Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> 1 Huikyo Lee <[email protected]> Removing duplicates and dropping Joe since that was an Infra commit, we've dropped to about 30% of the active developers compared to this time last year. That is probably an active reason for the reduction in mailing list activity. Obviously commits aren't the only way to contribute but they tend to be a big one for us. Mostly just food for thought. Big super +1000 for more discussions on the list though. Also it looks like the mailmap needs updated since theres some duplicate emails. -- Jimmy On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) < [email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > I notice that most of the discussions around dev for the project > are occurring on Github issues. I think if they are architecturally > relevant and things like that, they should happen here on dev, > with a noticeable subject line and requesting feedback. Github is > great for code-level issues and so forth but I think we need to > have discussions here over plain’ old email - since we aren’t > really having a ton of those. Well really at all. Can someone please > point me at the last thing actually discussed on dev@? > > Cheers, > Chris > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Chief Architect > Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > >
