Another suggestion. Perhaps a separate beta mailing list. This stuff clearly does not fit the purpose of the devinfo mailing list, but much of the audience is interested. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is likely to get overwhelmed with non-bugs.
I have run many, many betas in my career and found a mailing list to be an excellent method of making announcements, debugging problems, not getting duplicate problems, and getting large numbers of people to look for and try to narrow down obscure bugs. They tend to almost run themselves. It also keeps people interested as they see progress and jump in where they can help. Just a suggestion. JP On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 07:17, Julian Luton wrote: > Dear All, > Just a suggestion - how hard would it be to have your bug track system > send devinfo a daily or weekly digest of every new bug with 5.6 in the > subject line. > That way we could keep a track on what is causing you guys problems and > what isn't. We might even be able to help! At least it would stop this > endless spam on devinfo ;-) > All the best, > Julian Luton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Les Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 13 August 2002 05:32 > To: Charlie Brady; Greg J. Zartman > Cc: Devinfo > Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was > [5.6] unable to login to) > > > >From: "Charlie Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > However, it seems to make good sense to cc devinfo with bug reports, > > > > especially on something that is alpha. > > > > On no account cc devinfo. If you do that, every followup on devinfo > > will > > open a new ticket in our bug tracking system (as we've said here > before). > > This wastes even more of our time. > > How do all the other beta testers avoid wasting their time dealing with > the > same bug if they aren't discussed publicly? I thought the point of > open > source development was to share this sort of thing. > > Les Mikesell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives > by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
