Hi, On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:28:47PM +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > Digest with N patches in a lump kills the possibility to scan the > content quickly, so wouldn't work for anybody, and would be just a > waste.
Hmm, it certainly would work for me, so I dont assume that to be a general statement. > Those who merge most of the patches should decide what works for them > best I believe. Not quite -- you just as well have to accomodate for new blood as for the old residents. > that the 10 most active are Caolán, Fridrich, Thomas, Michael S., > Norbert, Miklos, David T., Tor, Andras, Olivier. So removing those who are employed to work on LibreOffice -- which I expect to be capable to set up their mail filters with a second list or with a gerrit watch -- that leaves Thomas, Norbert and Olivier. Of those, at least Thomas already stated: "I would prefer splitting it to a gerrit list where the mails come as usual. Like libreoffice-commits... " > Also consider the long tail here - how do you want to grow the amount of > people who merge patches, when it will be hidden in gerrit only or a > different / not default mailing list? Yes, I am absolutely considering them here. And I heard repeated statements from non-corporate contributors that the dev-list is too noisy to subscribe for a casual contributor(*). According to the archive, the dev-list had 2288 messages last month, if you dont see how that is a HUGE barrier to entry and a huge discrete step to dump 75 additional mails per day on your inbox for a casual contributor in the long tail, I challenge you to seriously consider to carefully reevaluate that. We have little problem gaining new contributors, but retaining them is more tricky. Please consider how people not being able/willing to invest in a monolithic 75 mails per day subscription plays into that. Best, Bjoern (*) And that was both before and after we had gerrit (lots of manually generated patches before instead). Note also, that gerrit did not seem to have a huge impact in changing the total message volume on the dev-list: 2288 mails in 2013-04, 1796 mails in 2012-04 which is in line with the general project growth in this timeframe _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice