[Digikam-devel] Separate bugs mailing list?

[todd rme]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/8/10 todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com>:
>> Currently the vast majority of emails to this list are automatic
>> emails from bugs.kde.org, making it very hard to find the non-bug
>> discussions and hard for non-developers who are trying to follow the
>> digikam development process.  To be specific, since the start of
>> August there have been 333 non-spam emails to this list.  Of those,
>> 311 (over 93%) were automatic emails from bugs.kde.org, and another 9
>> were from git commits or reviewboard.  Only 13 were announcements or
>> discussions directly on the mailing list.
>>
>> Given the high volume of bug reports relative to other emails, I think
>> it would be very helpful if bug reports were sent to a second,
>> dedicated mailing list rather than the main list.  This would make it
>> easier to follow discussions and make it easier to filter and
>> categorize emails in email programs.  I suspect, but am not sure, that
>> it would also encourage more discussion since emails to the list would
>> not get lost so easily.
>>
>> -Todd
>
> I agree.
>
> There is a volumnter to ask a new email adress to kde team dedicated
> to trace bug report and configure it to bugzilla ?
>
> Gilles Caulier

CCed Tom Albers, who seems to be keeping track of the mailing lists at
least to some extent.

@ Tom: Do you have any suggestions on how to go about doing this?

-Todd