I am going to have to agree with the previous two posts, sure, I don't read the code commits, and my inbox is a cluttered disaster of puppet-dev mail, but I know whats going on, and there are many times when I am informed about something that matters in puppet development just by reading the commit messages.
If it is moved off list, please maintain a public list where we can continue to receive these posts. -Thomas S Hatch On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Brice Figureau < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 27/10/10 22:10, Matt Robinson wrote: > > We've gotten feedback that a lot of the patches that are sent to the > > puppet-dev list aren't terribly useful to our community to read and > > tend to overwhelm the conversation. Because of this we're going to > > try no longer sending patches from the internal dev team to the list > > (community members will still need to send patches to the list for > > review). We're working through the best way to do code review > > internally, so some of that process of nitpicking over individual > > lines of code may be less visible from the outside until we determine > > a useful way to make that visible. What will hopefully be *more* > > visible is discussions about the broader direction of development, in > > large part because there will be less distraction from this on the > > list. > > That's unfortunate. That was an easy way to keep myself informed about > the evolutions of the code or the fixes that are in the pipeline without > looking to the web. > > Reading everyones comments (even nit-picking ones) is always > interesting, and I myself use this to increase my ruby knowledge or my > understanding of puppet internals. > > Reading the patches on github is not as good as on this list: > * I'd read them once they've been approved/merged, losing track of the > evolutions. > > * I'd have to browse github regularly, instead of just reading the mails > in the course of the day. > > * I'd miss the review comments, usually of high value, giving more > insights on internals. > > Would it be possible to setup another list (less visible) for such mails? > > Of course I understand that you devs sitting in the same office are > spending quite some time here when the communication could be much more > direct :) > > My 0.02EUR, > -- > Brice Figureau > My Blog: http://www.masterzen.fr/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<puppet-dev%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
