I don't have an official policy to point you to, but Chris Mattmann (our Apache project mentor) summarized some of the points in this thread, and here is the original concern that caused us to make this change:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201402.mbox/%3CCAAS6=7hkCiT093nXVMcUus8Z-5XCDn=cQ5trjN_Kz9ARe9H=r...@mail.gmail.com%3E On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Ethan Jewett <esjew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or not off-list. Sorry folks :-) Anyone should feel free to educate me > either on the policy or on mailing list use ;-) > > On Friday, February 21, 2014, Ethan Jewett <esjew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Aaron, > > > > Off-list message here. Can you point me to this policy? Due to some > > previous experiences here, I'm under the impression that it doesn't > exist. > > I can't find it on the Apache website. > > > > Thanks, > > Ethan > > > > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014, Aaron Davidson <ilike...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ilike...@gmail.com');>> > > wrote: > > > >> This is due, unfortunately, to Apache policies that all > >> development-related > >> discussion should take place on the dev list. As we are attempting to > >> graduate from an incubating project to an Apache top level project, > there > >> were some concerns raised about GitHub, and the fastest solution to > avoid > >> conflict related to our graduation was to CC dev@ for all GitHub > >> messages. > >> Once our graduation is complete, we may be able to find a less noisy way > >> of > >> dealing with these messages. > >> > >> In the meantime, one simple solution is to filter out all messages that > >> come from g...@git.apache.org and are destined to > >> dev@spark.incubator.apache.org. > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Gerard Maas <gerard.m...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > +1 please. > >> > > >> > > >> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Michael Ernest < > mfern...@cloudera.com > >> > >wrote: > >> > > >> > > +1 > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Heiko Braun < > >> ike.br...@googlemail.com > >> > > >wrote: > >> > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > Wouldn't it be better to move the github messages to a dedicated > >> email > >> > > > list? > >> > > > > >> > > > Regards, Heiko > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > Michael Ernest > >> > > Sr. Solutions Consultant > >> > > West Coast > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >
