Glenn, I appreciate your perspective on this, and I understand that you're speaking for yourself, as you said. I apologize if the following email sounds like I'm beating you up. I just have a very different opinion. Which I will now elaborate on... :-)
I count 13 threads so far this month that didn't get hit by the obvious filters. That's plenty of traffic to justify a different alias. And it doesn't count the replies to code review emails that people might redirect to an interest list if one was available. It also doesn't count the regular-looking email threads that might only want to go to the dev alias. So I know it's an inexact science. There are a lot of usability issues with the package tools, and this alias is the only way users have to participate. It needs to be more inviting if you want more people to participate. I just spent 30 minutes trying to create the necessary filters in Thunderbird, and I couldn't figure it out. And I'm not a Thunderbird newbie. You're off your rocker if you think I'm going to delete them one thread at a time. I have a day job. --chris Glenn Lagasse wrote: > * Chris Quenelle ([email protected]) wrote: >> I really want to follow the discussions related to the pkg system, but >> I don't have time to wade through all the putback notices and >> code review emails. Is it possible to create a pkg-dev alias and >> move the emails there that are only interesting to people actively >> working on the code for pkg? > > I personally would rather we didn't (not that my opinion counts any more > or less). If you remove the putback notices and code review emails, the > resultant traffic would be pretty minimal. To the point of not being > terribly useful imo. Plus, I'd rather not have yet another list where > pkg discussion takes place. It's one more list that people will post > stuff to that is more appropriate on pkg-discuss and vice-versa and one > more list that people will have to find and subscribe to etc etc. > > Is it really that hard to delete the code review threads and putback > messages? I ask in earnest. Using a threaded mail reader (mutt in my > case though I know at least thunderbird has support for threaded mail of > some type), deleting an enitre thread for a particular code review is a > two-key operation (shift-d). Weeding out the threads I'm not interested > in is awfully quick, for whatever it's worth. > > My .02. > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
