[Digikam-devel] Separate bugs mailing list?

[todd rme]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Tom Albers <toma at kde.org> wrote:
>
>
> ----- 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.

That would be fine for me, but the digikam developers would need to
make the final decision.

-Todd