I'm not sure if I'd call those posts "non-discussion". We often have discussions by commenting on bug tickets. Since we are "commit then review", a commit log or wiki post is often the genesis of a discussion about the change.
A commit or wiki event are not historical footnotes. These posts are a request for a peer review of the change, and an implicit vote as to whether the change should even take place. if someone is not following these posts, then much of the activity on the project will be missed. If a forum is going to be a replacement for the mailing lists, then the forum must cover all the mailing lists, else forum followers will be given a false sense of currency. There is a separate commits@ list, and so it would be easy to setup a separate forum for those. (But, again, we send out the commit logs so that they can be reviewed, so there should be a forum for those too!) The wiki and issue-trackers are both subscribed directly to dev@, so getting those into separate forums would be problematic, unless Jive does filtering on its own. I can't over-emphasize the vital importance of mailing lists to an ASF project. We consider the mailing list to be our communal memory. If something doesn't happen on the list, then it didn't happen. For today, we want everything that you can know about a project to go over the lists, so that the PMC and others can monitor everything that happens on a project. For tomorrow, we want everything to go over the lists, so that our successors can search the archives and see what we already decided and why. Every decision we make is in exactly one place: the mailing list archives. I'm a big fan of Jive forums, and I think having forums for the project lists is a Good Thing. But, the forums should cover all the traffic, because all the traffic is there for a reason. -Ted. On 1/16/06, Patrick Lightbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just realzied that the non-discussion emails (bugs, wiki, and commits) are > going in to the forums. The account that is subscribed is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there any way we can disable those other emails to that account? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Posted via Jive Forums > http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=14616&messageID=28683#28683 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
