big +1 -- I'm also curious why the subject lines of many automated emails (from Jira?) start with [CREATED] even though they are generated by comments or other kinds of updates (not creating a new issue). Overall, I think we have way too much comment spam. In particular Github comments are so poorly formatted in email (at least in gmail?) as to be almost unreadable - I think because they always include the complete comment history. I wonder if there is a way to neaten them up (especially the subject lines, so you can scan quickly)?
On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 7:17 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > > 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/trends.html?dev@lucene.apache.org: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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
