The traffic on the drill-dev list is overwhelming. Most of it is jira updates, and many of those are just admin tasks, such as flagging that a patch has arrived or an issue is fixed. So, the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty poor.
I don't think that I can solve this using mail filters, even fairly smart ones. If I redirected all jira messages to the trash (or to another folder which, let's be honest, I would never keep up with) I would miss updates to issues that I care enough about to have subscribed to updates. Likewise, if I requested a daily digest, it would add a 24-hour lag to my participation in discussions, and I would probably still lose messages amongst the chaff. I know having all transactions on a public email list is "the Apache way", but it's a flawed policy. The time investment to sort through the chaff is such that only full-time salaried developers can participate. (I suspect that many of these are tempted to have the real discussions one-to-one, or ignore the list entirely and just work on their assigned jira cases.) Let's have a discussion about this. Is anyone else feeling similarly overwhelmed? Conversely, drill-dev is working fine for you, please speak up too. If I don't receive any replies to this message, I guess I have my answer. :) Julian
