Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 13:43:19 -0500 From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: cem@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PRs are being closed for bogus reasons :-( Message-ID: <20180601184319.GP27985@kduck.kaduk.org> In-Reply-To: <1527878412.32688.207.camel@freebsd.org> References: <CAA3ZYrDE1qN36jkg6bfTuUQL-Ko01UhVa=i%2BJ7t7AfN4hdBDMQ@mail.gmail.com> <20180531210212.GD24090@lonesome.com> <5f84bfc4-3e47-283f-184f-49df94e0d457@yandex.ru> <CAG6CVpXk8RsopZgJ41x1n3uOTir5gVykthPYJAhCyTn-CwsCPQ@mail.gmail.com> <1527878412.32688.207.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 12:40:12PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > I like the idea of a list that just annouces new bugs but contains no > other traffic. I sometimes stumble across bugs by accident that I feel > like are in my wheelhouse or are trivial to fix. An announce-only list > would probably make a few more of those drop into my lap. > > Do you envision people being able to comment/reply/post to the list in > general? What I'm curious about is the level of non-announce mail > that's going to be on the list. If it turns into general chit-chat > about the bugs that are announced, the noise level goes way way up. > Also, that would encourage discussion related to the bugs which should > probably happen in bugzilla comments rather than out-of-band mail. I would hope that follow-up discussion would occur on the actual bug entries themselves, and interested parties would cc: themselves to the bug. > Hmm, something that could reduce the traffic even more would be to send > out a once-daily mail summarizing the short description lines of all > bugs entered in the past 24 hours. Maybe that could be done and sent to > a few appropriate existing lists (one or more of stable@, current@, > ports@, etc, depending on the metadata in the PRs). We could call it bug-announce-announce@ ;) But seriously, that does sound like it would be useful for some people, and probably even enough so to be worth the effort of setting it up. -Ben
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