TheN I misunderstood you.

In your mail of 01.46 today you write

 >>
Do you mean the messages concerning the homepage?

I really like the idea of publishing such a short summary when changes
are made -- especially because the commit messages are included too,
and I try to actually write something useful in them.

Without these mails, would you then go check the homepage?
<<


> I think you misunderstand why I started sending out the messages.  
> It is
> very common to send out such messages when developing free  
> software, and
> their main purpose is *code review* -- when I am following a software
> project I look at the changes to the code to understand it and more
> importantly, to understand the intensions of the developers.

Currently I am satisfied to read the highlevel discussions on this  
list. I am not going to look at the code, at least for now, so the  
commit messages are just more spam mails I have to delete.

--
Janus


--
Janus


Den 22/02/2008 kl. 9.36 skrev Martin Geisler:

> Janus Dam Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Well with all the messages and information you guys generate  
>> anyway, I
>> don't need change messages to figure out that you are making  
>> progress.
>>
>> I wouldn't look at the homepage every day anyway, so I don't use the
>> messages as a reminder.
>
> I think you misunderstand why I started sending out the messages.  
> It is
> very common to send out such messages when developing free  
> software, and
> their main purpose is *code review* -- when I am following a software
> project I look at the changes to the code to understand it and more
> importantly, to understand the intensions of the developers.
>
> So by making each change only a link away, I hoped that more people
> would look at the code and comment on it. Or at the very least that
> people would read the stuff we write in the commit messages.
>
>
> The idea of putting the messages on the front page of viff.dk was born
> out of two things:
>
> * It was easy to do since the repository provides RSS and Atom  
> feeds :-)
>
> * It gives people an easy way to see that the project is alive.
>
> -- 
> Martin Geisler
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