Hi

+1 for separated list(s) for JIRA/Github updates and Jenkins jobs.
While I myself am not in trouble with assorting the mails thanks to
gmail filters, I know an user (external dev) who unsubscribed this
list. The one reason is the volume of the mail flow :)

Tomoko

2019年8月7日(水) 8:17 Jan Høydahl <[email protected]>:
>
> 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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