[Kde-scm-interest] meeting summary

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> On 12/10/2009 9:34 AM, Ian Monroe wrote:
>>>> I don't even see the point of implementing this
>>>> temporary solution.
>>>
>>> Why is it temporary?
>>
>> Because it sucks. You talk about "joining a group" as if its something
>> a user can do on their own. They can't.
>
> Why do users need to get notification of merge requests?

Users here means gitorious.org users of course, not Amarok users or
whatever you were thinking.

So anyone interested in following Amarok development. This is notably
a group larger then active developers (eg we often have non-devs
joining amarok-devel, who we add with the moderated bit).

>>>> The proper temporary solution is for people to do
>>>> email filtering
>>>
>>> Yes, you could have everyone set up email filters on all their clients
>>> -- or you could prevent all that completely unnecessary email traffic in
>>> the first place.
>>>
>>>> or to drop out of +kde-developers until we're ready to
>>>> go (we're going to have some system to do mass-adds for sure anyways).
>>>
>>> What exactly is "ready to go"? When most of KDE switches to Gitorious,
>>> at which point everyone will get merge requests for all of KDE? *That*
>>> is silly.
>>
>> We aren't going to switch to Gitorious with the current merge request
>> situation. Its a blocker. Still a blocker.
>
> Why is it a blocker? What's actually wrong with it? What about it means
> that people that need or want merge request notifications can't get it,
> even if it means they have to ask one of the developers of the app,

> which makes sense given that they could then change the merge request
> status (thus assuming a small amount of a "developer" role)?

How it does make sense to receive emails they have to have to be able
to change merge request statuses? Coupling the two makes no sense at
all actually.

It's a very backwards to have admins decide what emails you get.
Normally users decide such things themselves.

> Note that repeating "it sucks" over and over isn't an acceptable argument.

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Law & Order: Acceptable Argument Division.
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