[Digikam-devel] Separate bugs mailing list?

[Tom Albers]

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> 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

Hi, 

Usually dedicated mailinglists for bugs don't work. It will only be interesting for 1 or 2 people. 

What I would like to suggest is this:

We assign a special bugzilla user to all digikam bugs. That way the mails to the -devel mailinglist will stop. 

For people that want to get all the mails, they can go to bugzilla and 'follow' that special user. Then they get a mail for all changes as they have received up to now. 

Is that an idea? If so, please make a sysadmin bugreport (see footer bugs.kde.org) so we can set it up for you.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin