[wsf-c-dev] Moving SVN Commit messages

[James Clark]

I strongly agree with Dinesh. In fact, I was about to suggest the same
thing.  It's very unusual for an open source project to have
auto-generated commit messages go to the same list as human-generated
messages, and I think it's a really bad idea.  Realistically the only
people who are going to look at all the commit messages are the core
committers of a project, and they would subscribe to a separate -svn
list anyway. The dev list could potentially be interesting to a much
broader audience than just these committers.  The svn commit messages
make the signal-to-noise ratio so low for this audience that the
likelihood of their subscribing is significantly lowered.  There's
filtering, but I think a lot of people feel overwhelmed by the volume of
unwanted email that they receive and are reluctant to subscribe to a
list that would increase this.

James

On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 18:29 +0530, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
> In think in the Apache world there's a separate list but usually in WS 
> projects the list is directed to the dev list. The risk of having a 
> separate list is that folks won't subscribe and its important for people 
> to look at other people's commits.
> 
> Is it too hard to filter the commit messages to a subfolder?
> 
> Sanjiva.
> 
> Dinesh Premalal wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I think it's better if we could move svn commits into some other
> >    mailing list (may be wsf-svn or wso2-svn). *-dev mailing list I
> >    have seen so far used only for discussions. Is there any reason
> >    behind sending commit messages to wsf-c-dev list ? It may reduce
> >    the alertness to the wsf-c-dev list :)
> >  
> >    Any thoughts ...
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Dinesh
> > 
>