[rfc] shut down bazaar-commits list?

[Martin Pool]

We have the bazaar-commits list
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/bazaar-commits> to which
some developers have their machines configured to send email every
time they commit, thereby letting other people be aware of work that's
not yet ready for mail.  I have occasionally got mail from Robert
correcting bugs in code I have not yet pushed which is kind of cool
though a bit creepy. :-)

Anyhow, this list, like all mailing lists, accumulates a bit of spam
that needs to be manually filtered, so I was wondering if we can do
away with it and just have people subscribe to branches on Launchpad
instead.

I suspect the answer will be "no" because other people use the list
more than I do, but I thought I'd ask anyhow.  At any rate it may be
interesting to work out what would make this better on Launchpad.

I think the drawbacks to doing it that way would be:

 * not all branches are pushed, or at least there may be some delay
before they're pushed
 * you can't (?) yet get a so-called structural subscription to all
bzr branches?

It does have advantages:
 * you can directly pull or browse the branch
 * it doesn't take any client configuration beyond pushing the branch
 * the data is available by rss as well as mail

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>