[wsf-c-dev] Moving SVN Commit messages

[Sanjaya Ratnaweera]

+1 for having a separate list for commit messages.

Thanks

    ~sanjaya

James Clark wrote:
>>  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.
>>     
>
> Let me suggest that you are thinking about developers like yourself for
> whom the list is a significant part of their jobs.  For this kind of
> developer I would agree with you.  But that's not the kind of developer
> that should guide the decision.  People like you will subscribe to -dev
> whatever we do.  The people we need to think about are people outside
> WSO2 who are a little bit but not a lot interested in the development of
> the product covered by a -dev list; they are hesitating and trying to
> decide whether or not to subscribe. These are the people for whom our
> decision could make a difference as to whether or not they subscribe to
> the -dev list.  Such a developer, I can guarantee you, will NOT be
> interested in seeing svn commit messages.  If svn commits go to the -dev
> list, the result will not be that such a developer subscribes and then
> reads all the commit messages.  The result will be one of:
>
> a) the developer decides not to subscribe to -dev at all
>
> b) the developer subscribes and filters out the commit messages
>
>      1. I think the result is much more likely to be (a) than (b).  In
>         either case, the policy of making commit messages go to the dev
>         list will have achieved nothing for the outside developers that
>         we should be focusing on attracting.
>
> By the way, filtering doesn't solve the problem that the archives are
> made less useful by being cluttered with commit messages.  Also there
> are other ways to look at commit messages (e.g. svn log).
>
> James
>
>
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