Hi

The mail volume on dev@ is fairly high, betwen 2500-3500/month.
To break down the numbers last month, see 
https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]:lte=1M:

Top 10 participants:
-GitBox: 420 emails
-ASF subversion and git services (JIRA): 351 emails
-Apache Jenkins Server: 261 emails
-Policeman Jenkins Server: 234 emails
-Munendra S N (JIRA): 134 emails
-Joel Bernstein (JIRA): 84 emails
-Tomoko Uchida (JIRA): 77 emails
-Jan Høydahl (JIRA): 52 emails
-Andrzej Bialecki (JIRA): 47 emails
-Adrien Grand (JIRA): 46 emails

I have especially noticed how every single GitHub PR review comment triggers 
its own email instead of one email per review session.
Also, every commit/push triggers an email since a bot adds a comment to JIRA 
for it.

Personally I think the ratio of notifications vs human emails is a bit too 
high. I fear external devs who just want to follow the project may get 
overwhelmed and unsubscribe.
One suggestion is therefore to add a new list where detailed JIRA comments and 
Github comments / reviews go. All committers should of course subscribe!
I saw the Zookeeper project have a notifications@ list for GitHub comments and 
issues@ for JIRA comments (Except the first [Created] email for a JIRA will 
also go to dev@)
The Maven project follows the same scheme and they also send Jenkins mails to 
the notifications@ list. The Cassandra project seems to divert all jira 
comments to the commits@ list.
The HBase project has keeps only [Created]/[Resolved] mails on dev@ and all 
other from Jira/GH on issues@ list and Jenkins mails on a separate builds@ list.

Is it time we did something similar? I propose a single new notifications@ list 
for everything JIRA, GitHub and Jenkins but keep [Created|Resolved] mails on 
dev@

--
Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com


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