Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (594 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/21/2009 02:40 PM, Michal Marek wrote:
> Stephan Kulow napsal(a):
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > During the conference and also before in communication to developers I very 
> > often heard the argument that they don't read opensuse-factory because it's 
> > so 
> > high traffic.
> >     
> I'm a developer and I more or less read opensuse-factory and even
> opensuse (although that one I only read filtered), so I don't really buy
> that excuse. If I maintain $package, then setting up a filter for
> $package and maybe a few other keywords related to $package takes little
> time and already gives me good data. Skimming through the list of
> threads on opensuse-factory once a day helps catch some of the threads
> that went unnoticed and that's it (folks who send mails with "Subject: a
> few problems with the latest milestone" cannot be helped anyway :-P).
>
>
>   
> > I see three options:
> > 1. make opensuse-factory moderated for a while and make people that abuse
> >  opensuse-factory not to subscribe to -kde, -gnome or -testing - or even
> >  worse report bugs.
> > 2. split out opensuse-devel where posts without problem analysis are
> >  clearly offtopic.
> > 3. split out opensuse-factory-users where there is no limit (basically
> >   a suboption of 1)
> >
> > My preference would be 2, it would create the least problems and my hope 
> > would 
> > be that this list is low traffic enough to auto subscribe everyone doing 
> > submitrequests to factory :)
> >     
> My fear is that a opensuse-devel would be often hijacked by irrelevant
> threads as it is happening now with factory (e.g. people posting here
> when there even is a bug open and the assignee is asking for logfiles
> from anyone who can reproduce it...). But if there is a real chance that
> more developers subscribe to the new list, then let's go for it, I'll
> just subscribe one more list.
>
> just my $0.02
> Michal
>   
There's a lot of traffic on factory that could better be handled by
opensuse-kde which seems to me to be a very efficient list, maybe
there's some way of politely diverting some of the factory traffic.
Regards
Dave P
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