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Re: [birt-dev] Thoughts about the mailing lists and newsgroup
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Paul Clenahan wrote:
<snip>
Even if we were to answer each of the above items, there are many more
scenarios.
Perhaps the only clear case would be to have a separate mailing list for
commit/check-in notices. These are most likely to be of interest to
committers only, and the definition of the mailing list is fairly clear.
But even in this case, I can see where it would not work -- perhaps a
developer makes a Commit that prompts a discussion on the purpose of
that commit, this then naturally expands into a discussion of the bigger
feature, and that discussion should get community input -- which would
be better on the "community" list.
<snip>
You raise a good point here.
Here is how I think it would still work, if we decide to have a mailing
list for the commit checkins.
All committers are/can be subscribed to checkin mails. Anyone (even a
contributor) who is interested in looking at the checkin mails can
subscribe to the checkin mail. I (as a contributor) am interested in
checkin mails too to see if my patch was checked in and also maybe to
learn about changes made for a particular change by a committer.
If a checkin involves an issue that someone wants to raise, this mail
can be forwarded to birt-dev and discussion will happen* *on birt-dev.
So all discussions happen on the birt-dev, good for all the birt
development community. The commit mailing list, is only for commit
notices /and or the wiki updates basically notifying that a particular
change happened to the cvs repository and/or the wiki.
Comments/thoughts ?
Thanks,
Sunitha.
