On 02/28/2013 10:57 AM, Benjamin Hindman wrote: > I'm not opposed to the idea, but we do A LOT of communication via JIRA and > Review Board, and my fear is that relegating these automatically generated > emails to a separate list will cause people to miss the > *actual*conversation that's going on. I don't like the idea of having > the > conversation in too many places, e.g., on the mailing list, and on Review > Board, and on JIRA!
Yes, agreed. Fewer sources of truth/activity are better! Here's some constructive criticism. I've been trying to follow development conversations in JIRA and Review Board, and I'm finding the mailing list useless for this purpose. I end up just using the mailing list, JIRA, and Review Board separately anyway. For example: I can easily see what's going on in a Review Board review or a JIRA issue because of the handy UI. Here's a review with lots of activity: https://reviews.apache.org/r/9408/ . Looks great there. I can pick out the chronology, participants, and see the commented diffs! That's a pretty cool tool. A notification from review 9408 on the mailing list is much less helpful. Here's one of the actions out of context: http://tinyurl.com/cbpyfwr . That email by itself adds little except an audit trail. It crowds out (IMHO) more important emails. I wouldn't reply directly to it. I really have to go back to Review Board to do anything useful with that notification. Maybe the problem is just that I'm trying to browse the archives, and mod_mbox is not my favorite mailing list archive browser. I'll try email filtering before any more whinging. If you're still feeling thumbs-down after reading the above, I'll probably withdraw my proposal. This may just be me getting used to Mesos development/communication. I also found http://tinyurl.com/ch2njku ... Andrew maybe got put off by the notification emails too. Again, might just be an issue for new Mesos contributors.
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