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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org