[etoys-dev] About etoys-notify

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 17.06.2010, at 10:09, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> On Thursday 17 Jun 2010 5:51:07 am Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> All: if you want to be notified of activity on the bug tracker, subscribe
>> to this list:
>> 
>> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-notify
> Etoys-dev is a small group and the mail traffic in etoys-notify is manageable. 
> Can the notifications be sent to etoys-dev directly?
> 
> What else would etoys-dev track if not these notifications ;-)?
> 
> Subbu


The commit diffs are really important for every developer to see, so that's why I feel it's needed to have them on etoys-dev directly (even though there were a few objections IIRC).

Many of the bug notifications are more noise than information - e.g. when priorities are changed, bugs are resolved/closed (which will have a commit message too), etc. So having that be opt-in on a separate list seemed like a good compromise.

On etoys-dev there are close to 200 subscribers (talk about silent majority), etoys-notify more like 20.  I'm personally fine with the current arrangement. But if others agree we need more visibility of bug tracker activity, we can change it pretty easily :)

- Bert -