Side effect of making xubuntu-devel a member of xubuntu-team

[Cody A.W. Somerville]

I've sent a request for the creation of an xubuntu-bugs mailing list.

Thanks,

Cody A.W. Somerville

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 4/27/08, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Vincent wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Eero Tamminen <oak at helsinkinet.fi
> > > <mailto:oak at helsinkinet.fi>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Hi,
> > >
> > >     On Saturday 26 April 2008, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> > >      > > As someone who has focused primarily on the documentation, I
> > >     find the
> > >      > > deluge of bug reports on the mailing list a little
> > >     overwhelming.  And I
> > >      > > think it also increases the signal-to-noise ratio for
> > >     discussions on
> > >      > > the list - it makes it easier for a discussion to get lost.
> > >      > >
> > >      > > I'd be willing to take myself off of the Xubuntu team list if
> > >     others
> > >      > > want to keep things this way, but  I'd prefer to not receive
> > bug
> > >      > > reports from xubuntu-devel.
> > >      >
> > >
> > >
> > >     Maybe there could be a separate xubuntu-bugs mailing list?
> > >
> > >
> > > I was just going to suggest this myself, so a +1 from me.
> >
> > I don't see any reason why not to do this are there any? It will thinks
> > more cleaner. so +1 for me to.
> >
> > Jelle
>
>
> Regarding the bugs mailing list . . .  I'm indifferent (and I don't mean
> that in a bad way).  I'm ok with being able to contribute to documentation,
> but just find it annoying for every Xubuntu bug report to come into my
> mailbox when I want to focus on docs.  What if someone wants to contribute
> to artwork or the website - should they have to see a bug report for xfwm4
> crashing?  Maybe Jani, Cody, and Lionel don't like all of the artwork and
> other non-core-dev related discussions on the devel mailing list, and they
> prefer things this way.
>
> I can see the need to be notified of bug reports for Xubuntu testing/QA,
> packaging, and seed management . . .  but documentation, artwork and
> community-building/website/marketing folks shouldn't need to see every
> report.  Maybe create a xubuntu-core-dev (or xubuntu-qa) mailing list for
> testers, packagers, and seed managers?  Or maybe create a
> xubuntu-devel-discuss list for less technical development discussions?
> Maybe people like Cody, Lionel, Jani, Jerome, and others like having the bug
> reports come through, but no other team does things this way, and it doesn't
> seem to be an optimal solution to me.  I don't think that creating an email
> filter is a good solution, either.
>
> Cody had preposed the following, "Or we could either remove xubuntu-dev
> from xubuntu-team or remove the contact address (this mailing list) from
> xubuntu-dev," and I haven't heard discussions of those options.  I assume
> that making one of those moves would stop the bug reports from feeding to
> the mailing list, but I'm not sure.
>
> I don't intend for this to discourage people from working on bugs and
> fixing things, and part of me does see how doing this helps us to see how
> many bug reports are actually coming in, but another part of me says that I
> have limited time to spend on Xubuntu and need to be able to focus on the
> areas that require my work.
>
> I'm open to input on this, of course.  We've had things going like this
> for over a month now . . . what do people think?
>
> Jim
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