[openstack-dev] [Solumn] Suggestion about usage of mailing lists

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Wed Dec 4 22:12:46 UTC 2013


On 12/04/2013 05:07 PM, Boris Pavlovic wrote:
> Guys, 
> 
> I really appreciate that all discussion are real open, and you are doing
> a great job, discussing all arch stuff of the project. But for such
> things there are:
> 1) IRC chats
> 2) WIKI pages
> 3) ehterpads 
> 
> E.g. in Rally we have 1 page:
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Rally_Main that contains all important
> information about:
> 1) RoadMaps
> 2) Links to active discussions
> 3) Current Active and Open Tasks
> So everybody is able to discuss what he want with the rest of the
> project community, without tons of emails..
> 
> Could I ask you guys to send emails only about:
> 1) Releases
> 2) Major changes and news
> 3) Questions 
> 4) Incubation stuff 
> 5) Integration with other projects
> 
> And avoid discussing every piece of arch in mailing list. Because if
>  each project will start to discuss all arch stuff in mailing list, we
> will have billions of emails per minute in openstack-dev.  
> 
> 
> Sorry for this email, and thank you for understanding. 

I have pretty much the exact opposite opinion of what you expressed here.

If you don't want to see it, please use filters or only subscribe to the
topics you care about.

Thanks,

-- 
Russell Bryant



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