Hi Chris, I like the proposal. Just one question, how about email notifications from Github Discussion? and are there any changes for JIRA Issue and Github issue?
Best, ----------------------------------- Xiangdong Huang School of Software, Tsinghua University 黄向东 清华大学 软件学院 Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> 于2023年1月23日周一 00:51写道： > > Hi all, > > I would like to make a suggestion here on how we can possibly make it better > for people to use and follow our mailing-lists and hereby our project. > > Admittedly I am interested in IoTDB unchanged. However, over time it has > become more and more problematic to casually follow the project. > > Subscribing to the dev-list, which should be the projects town-square, > actually only helps if we’re doing a vote. Besides this, I can’t really see > any discussions at all. > > PR notifications have become so frequent, that we banned them to the > “reviews@” list, to keep dev@ clean. > However, it’s so clean now, that it doesn’t contain anything except build > success/failure notifications and the other list I think only archive-bots > have subscribed (While dev@ currently has 277 email subscribers, reviews@ > only has 3 (at least one of them being the asf archiver and a second one > being another mailbox archive outside of the asf) > > How the reviews@ list looks like: > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KEONRKhlnqL2azhhmpXBvRIjoyHapp--/view?usp=share_link > How the dev@ list looks like: > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QxBMpdzv_LIa12CzpTBQOFE6HowIGBjq/view?usp=share_link > > The problem I saw with GitHub PR notifications, was that they are unreadable > in any normal email client also don’t I know a single email-client that can > offer any sort of threading. > I did suggest some changes to the notification-bot the ASF uses and after > quite a bit of discussion, they now added a feature, that a project can > choose the format of the email subject. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Git+-+.asf.yaml+features#Git.asf.yamlfeatures-CustomsubjectlinesforGitHubevents > > For PLC4X we changed it to this: > https://github.com/apache/plc4x/blob/develop/.asf.yaml#L62 > > This has the benefit of allowing people to see what a thread is about by > making it start with the title … we all know what repo it’s gonna be about, > so we moved that to the end (For some odd reason the repo is a required field > in the subject) > By having every follow-up email be prefixed with “Re: “ every email client I > tried, displayed it as a thread correctly. > > So all in all we have changed in PLC4X: > > > * All dependabot stuff goes to commit@ (because nobody is actually > interested in these emails) > * All PR and Issue emails go to dev, but with the updated format > > Possibly worth thinking about updating the way we do it in iotdb. > > > Chris
