Hi all, I have noticed in a lot of projects I am involved in, that my active participation has dropped with more and more communities shifting to discuss things in jira and using github code reviews.
Usually I used the title of emails to decide on which discussions I should follow … this worked great till all topics sort of start with: [jira][someoperation][somproject-someissueid] some description Or even worse: [GitHub] [someproject] someone commented on a change in pull request #someid: some description … Is it just me, or do you also have problems mass-scanning mailinglists with these titles in most of their emails? I mean … I am currently following about 30-40 email lists and I really have to be efficient in keeping up to date. For me I think it’s really damaging as I am not willing to manually go through all the Jira issues and github pull requests or github issues to scan through masses of emails to find the usually minimal information they contain. Especially github reviews really piss me off as the net information content for each of these emails is minimal their use is minimal as the context isn’t contained and I have to click on 10 emails to get the point of one single review. I think it’s great to be open to changes, but we really have to ensure we don’t lose what has been good. What do you think? Chris
