Christofer Dutz wrote on 6/30/23 3:49 AM:
...snip...
So in general, I would like to change the defaults used by the GitHub tooling
to the ones I proposed in
https://community.apache.org/contributors/mailing-lists.html#configuring-the-subject-lines-of-the-emails-being-sent
. Quite a number of projects have adopted these settings:
Like StreamPipes:
https://lists.apache.org/list?d...@streampipes.apache.org:lte=4M
+1 to giving this several more days of review and refinement, and then
holding a vote to make this a ComDev PMC recommendation of best practice
and then working (separately) on how to announce and make any changes.
A couple of things I'd love to see:
- A clear example of a before and after within a single project. Come
up with a specific Ponymail date search URL that shows one week of
old-style notifications on a dev@ list, and then a second URL that shows
a week of new-style notifications from the same dev@ list. Directly
seeing that difference would really help cement "yes, let's do it!"
- Changing Chris' description page above to clearly show the best
practice first, and then talk about how to find options for projects
that want to customize. The page as written now is good at helping
convince someone new that 1) this is an easy change, and 2) this is a
good idea.
When we work on communications to PMCs, we need a "How-To setup best
practices for GH notifications" guide that focuses on the *why*
"Inclusion and transparency", and then the *steps to do/configure* which
would be brief description of asfyaml stuff, and start with the best
practice configuration, explaining what it does.
After that in the doc, include the original GH notifications and other
pointers to technical reference.
Thinking ahead, I'd be happy voting to send out PMCs email saying "the
default notifications are going to change on date X; email here to
opt-out". Keep track of opt-outs, and then change defaults for all.
--
- Shane
ComDev PMC
The Apache Software Foundation
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