On 1/17/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to see a compromise where I could sign up for mailing list that only > contains > discussions, yet track tickets, > wiki updates, and commits via RSS. This discussion-only mailing list could > be a second > mailing list that just > automatically filters out undesired messages.
I guess what I don't understand is why relay one via RSS and not the other. The mailing list discussions may be free-form, but that does not make them more or less valuable than the discussions we have through the issue ticket, wiki, and repository logs. Wendy updates the release plan, and through the wiki log automatically discusses her changes with me and with the rest of us. Craig commits and automatically discusses what he just did and what he's going to do next. Looking over the issue tickets, every third or fourth turns into a discussion. Sometimes the discussion is: "Got a problem or a patch", followed by "Fixed", but that's a discussion nonetheless. What bothers me most is the implication that just because these logs are being forwarded from the issue tracker, or repository, or wiki, they are somehow less valuable than a free-form message. In practice, I'd say the opposite is more likely to be true. The *real* development decisions are being made on the tickets and in the commits. It's only the odds and ends that we discuss here. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
