On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 12:42 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote: > > > On 4/27/08, Jelle de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vincent wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Eero Tamminen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Saturday 26 April 2008, Jelle de Jong wrote: > > > > As someone who has focused primarily on the > documentation, I > > find the > > > > deluge of bug reports on the mailing list a little > > overwhelming. And I > > > > think it also increases the signal-to-noise ratio > for > > discussions on > > > > the list - it makes it easier for a discussion to > get lost. > > > > > > > > I'd be willing to take myself off of the Xubuntu > team list if > > others > > > > want to keep things this way, but I'd prefer to > not receive bug > > > > reports from xubuntu-devel. > > > > > > > > > Maybe there could be a separate xubuntu-bugs mailing > list? > > > > > > I was just going to suggest this myself, so a +1 from me. > > I don't see any reason why not to do this are there any? It > will thinks > more cleaner. so +1 for me to. > > Jelle > > Regarding the bugs mailing list . . . I'm indifferent (and I don't > mean that in a bad way). I'm ok with being able to contribute to > documentation, but just find it annoying for every Xubuntu bug report > to come into my mailbox when I want to focus on docs. What if someone > wants to contribute to artwork or the website - should they have to > see a bug report for xfwm4 crashing? Maybe Jani, Cody, and Lionel > don't like all of the artwork and other non-core-dev related > discussions on the devel mailing list, and they prefer things this > way. > > I can see the need to be notified of bug reports for Xubuntu > testing/QA, packaging, and seed management . . . but documentation, > artwork and community-building/website/marketing folks shouldn't need > to see every report. Maybe create a xubuntu-core-dev (or xubuntu-qa) > mailing list for testers, packagers, and seed managers? Or maybe > create a xubuntu-devel-discuss list for less technical development > discussions? Maybe people like Cody, Lionel, Jani, Jerome, and others > like having the bug reports come through, but no other team does > things this way, and it doesn't seem to be an optimal solution to me. > I don't think that creating an email filter is a good solution, > either. > > Cody had preposed the following, "Or we could either remove > xubuntu-dev from xubuntu-team or remove the contact address (this > mailing list) from xubuntu-dev," and I haven't heard discussions of > those options. I assume that making one of those moves would stop the > bug reports from feeding to the mailing list, but I'm not sure. > > I don't intend for this to discourage people from working on bugs and > fixing things, and part of me does see how doing this helps us to see > how many bug reports are actually coming in, but another part of me > says that I have limited time to spend on Xubuntu and need to be able > to focus on the areas that require my work. > > I'm open to input on this, of course. We've had things going like > this for over a month now . . . what do people think? > > Jim
Agreed, I spend so much time looking at what I can't understand to try to find what applies, I don't have time for much else anymore. I'm at the point of just deleting the bugs so I can do what need doing. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
