Then [Contrib][<Project>] I guess.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Anca Luca <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually I don't like the idea of having the name of the application itself
> and not a unique keyword because it's not easy to have filters in the mail
> client for all the names of the applications on contrib (I cannot imagine
> how I would create these filters). With a single keyword filters are easier
> to do.
>
> Let's please decide quickly on this, because I see there is already contrib
> related activity that I am missing...
>
> Thanks,
> Anca
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > > On 08 Apr 2016, at 11:43, Anca Luca <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hello all,
>> > >
>> > > Since http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/jrug6cbbqpia5bx4 (but not only)
>> > the
>> > > rule says that we should discuss contrib related stuff with the
>> > community.
>> > > In my case, I cannot manage to follow all the mails on the
>> > [email protected]
>> > > (because they are a lot) but I would be particularly interested of not
>> > > missing the ones about contrib extensions.
>> >
>> > Since the dev rules for xwiki contrib are now the same as for xwiki core
>> > (i.e. dev.xwiki.org), I’m not sure if it makes sense to differentiate
>> > proposals. Maybe you could just filter mails with "[Proposal]" and
>> "[VOTE]”?
>> >
>> > > However, today, I don't know how
>> > > to differentiate them, I would need to read all [email protected] to not
>> > miss
>> > > one.
>> > >
>> > > There are multiple solutions that I can propose for this, please let me
>> > > know what you think:
>> > > 1/ have a contrib mailing list
>> >
>> > I feel that xwiki-contrib might be large enough now to warrant a mailing
>> > list but maybe not 2 (users and devs).
>> >
>> > However there are issues:
>> >
>> > * Notifications from jira. We could have a single [email protected]
>> > mailing for everything related to contrib (users, devs, notifications).
>> >
>> > * Users don’t know if what they’re using from e.x.o is from Core or from
>> > Contrib so they’d have a hard time choosing the right list from
>> > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/MailingLists. For example
>> > right now we have: "[email protected] : For questions about using XWiki,
>> > using the XWiki API, suggestions for improvements, ideas, etc.”
>> >
>> >
>> > > 2/ have an alias for the contrib that would send on the same list, this
>> > way
>> > > we could filter by the "to" field
>> > > 3/ have a convention about mails related to contrib (e.g. [Contrib] in
>> > the
>> > > subject) that would allow to filter
>> >
>> > This is probably the simplest ATM. The pros is that it wouldn’t create
>> any
>> > fragmentation between Contrib and Core, which is probably a good thing.
>> >
>> > > 4/ any other technical solution that I didn't think about that would
>> > allow
>> > > to automatically decide if a mail is about contrib or not, without
>> > reading
>> > > it :D
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > 1, 2 and even 4 are perfectly fine with me, 3 is a bit risky because
>> > people
>> > > might not follow conventions.
>> > >
>> > > What do you think?
>> >
>> > If we follow the direction that we’re trying to take, which is to have a
>> > single large community (ie bring contrib and core together), I think the
>> > best is to keep using the same lists as now but do a best effort of using
>> > "[Contrib]” for mails related only to contrib stuff.
>> >
>>
>> IMO contrib devs should be up to date with the changes in the platform and
>> we should keep the communication tight with the platform. As we can see,
>> many topics on contrib apps trace down to the platform and vice-versa.
>>
>> It would also not be very helpful for the project/community to do such a
>> segregation, so I agree with Vincent.
>>
>> Since we are talking about contrib (which are devs and which have a guide
>> to follow), as Thomas suggested, it would be a helpful idea to mention the
>> app in the subject so that we can apply filters in the mail client, should
>> we need them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eduard
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > -Vincent
>> >
>> > > Anca
>> >
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