I actually chose the route to mailbox all JIRA traffic and only look
at Drill jira page activity feed once in a while to see what's going
on.

The huge git commit messages are definitely a big spam, but it's very
useful for me as I can know exactly all the patches going in, but I
can see it being annoying.

I don't see other projects getting these big git commit messages when
things are pushed though, do we know how to configure that?

Tim

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

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