[Pkg-puppet-devel] creating another list for SCM emails?

[Andrew Pollock]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:39:31PM -0500, micah anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:54:08 +1000, Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:11:40PM -0800, Nigel Kersten wrote:
> > > I assume we can change the repo to mail to a different list, and we
> > > can get another list created on alioth?
> > > 
> > > Are people in favour of this idea? I'm finding myself getting drowned
> > > in these SCM emails and missing the odd bit of discussion.
> > 
> > I've seen other projects on Alioth have a -commits list.
> 
> Do people find the commit email useful *at all*? If they aren't, then it
> might not be worth going through the process of moving them, and instead
> we could disable them. 
> 
> I find them only partly interesting, just as an indicator that someone
> is doing something, which I then look into through other means. If I
> could get that information another way, then I wouldn't bother
> subscribing to a commits list.

Right now, it's the only indicator I have for there being any activity.

It's probably a good time to spin up a thread about commit practices in
general, which I'll do separately.
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