On 2009-09-02 23:12, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Keith Hodges 
> <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk <mailto:keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
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>     Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>     >
>     > On 02.09.2009, at 09:33, Damien Cassou wrote:
>     >
>     >> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Michael van der
>     >> Gulik<mikevdg at gmail.com <mailto:mikevdg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>> Would it perhaps be better to have the automated trunk commit
>     >>> messages going
>     >>> to some other dedicated mailing list?
>     Which we already have.
>     >> With squeaksource, it is easy to get an RSS feed of a package. That
>     >> way only people interested get noticed.
>     >
>     >
>     > Why would people on squeak-dev not be interested in Squeak
>     development?
>     1. Not having time.
>
>     2. Poluting the exisiting actual human messages with extra stuff to
>     trawl through when you are searching for something.
>
>
>
> 95% of the human messages end up in my trash unread. I'm finding about 
> the same proportion of commit messages are relevant to me as human 
> messages.
>
> I'm becoming a bit of a fan of the commit messages. You can see what's 
> happening, and it's the best forum for discussing changes.

And I think the big drawback with Mantis is that is very quiet and not 
visible. It's a place where bugs go to be ignored most of the time.

Karl





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