On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:55:05 -0400 Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sit back and let Uncle Shaun tell you a story. A long time ago, GNOME > releases just kind of happened, and docs either happened with them or > they didn't. Usually they didn't. Then we implemented release schedules > with freezes. That helped the docs team a lot. We were able to start > documenting as of feature freeze without worrying much about everything > changing out from underneath us. > > The only problem was that we weren't always sure when things branched > for new development. This was back in the CVS or SVN days. I'm not > sure. My memory is hazy. But we just didn't know. And back in those > days, we had to build everything ourselves, which was time consuming. > We didn't have Flatpaks. We didn't have Boxes. This might have even > been before jhbuild. So we required maintainers to send us an email > when they branched. > > Then we switched to git, and we discovered we could just send those > notification emails automatically, which made maintainers' lives a lot > easier. And emails were more reliable, which made it easier for us to > spend too much time building software. > > My question is, are these notifications still useful? Because there are > a lot of them, far more than the volume of real human conversation. Dear uncle Shaun, I think you've asked a good question. I could only think of why those notifications could be useful for translators who need to configure branches in Damned Lies manually after module branching, but for docs, I say let's get rid of them. Is https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues now the right place to file a sysadmin request? Thanks, pk _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
