[wsf-c-dev] Moving SVN Commit messages

[Afkham Azeez]

+1

The subject of the commit messages are sent from the svn at wso2.com email
address. Hence you can define a filter appropriately.

Azeez

On 1/16/07, Chatra Nakkawita <chatra at wso2.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> >>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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
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