[wsf-c-dev] Moving SVN Commit messages

[Chatra Nakkawita]

I dont think we should have a separate mailing list for svn commits. The
commits going to dev mailing list help not only committers, also other
developers to be notified of changes to code/ docs etc. It helps you
keep track of what's going on. I too agree with Dr. Sanjiva- " 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." My personal
opinion is that having the commits going into the dev mailing list only
makes the mailing list more important and increases the alertness
required on the list.

You can easily filter the svn commits to a separate folder on you mail
client if that is an issue.

Thanks,
Chatra

James Clark wrote:

>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:
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>>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:
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>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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