[openstack-dev] [policy] Let's make topics mandatory for openstack-dev

Sylvain Bauza sylvain.bauza at bull.net
Thu Dec 5 10:50:11 UTC 2013


Le 05/12/2013 11:03, Matthew Booth a écrit :
> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 11:35 +0200, Roman Prykhodchenko wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Open Stack community grows continuously bringing more people and so new
>> initiatives and new projects. This growing amount of people, initiatives
>> and projects causes increasing the amount of discussions in our mailing
>> list.
>>
>> The problem which I'm talking about is that controlling the mailing list
>> gets harder with the growth of the community. It takes too much time to
>> check for important emails and delete/archive the rest even now. And it
>> does not tend to get any easier in the future.
>>
>> Most of the email services and email clients support filtering incoming
>> emails. So one can automatically get rid of certain emails by creating
>> appropriate filters. Topics in subjects seem to be the best objects for
>> creating rules, i.e., when someone is interested only in Keystone he can
>> create an email filter for '[keystone]' substring in the subject.
>>
>> The problem with the topics is that a lot of emails in openstack-dev do
>> not contain topics in their subjects, which makes this kind of filtering
>> very ineffective.
>>
>> My proposal is to create an automated rule that rejects new emails, if
>> they do not contain any topic in their subject. What do you guys think?
> Alternatively, separate mailing lists for each current topic area. A
> top-level mailing list could subscribe to all of them for anybody who
> truly wants the fire hose.
>
> Matt
>

And so we create silos... :-)

I would give a -1 to Roman's proposal but amend it : why not tagging 
them as [Nosubject] and filter them accordingly in our inboxes, ie. with 
low priority ?
-Sylvain



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