[syslog-ng] bugzilla items not forwarded to this list

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Thu Apr 15 21:13:43 CEST 2010


On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 21:57 +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 12:59 -0400, Christopher Barry wrote:
> > > Isn't this a little spammy? Perhaps a "dev" mailing list would be a 
> > 
> > 
> > I second that idea. A -dev would be the best way to distribute bugzilla
> > ticket status.
> 
> Well, is it really that spammy? We had about 80 tickets in the last 2.5
> half years. This gateway used to work this way for most of this time,
> only recently was it broken.
> 
> I guesstimate that we had at most 300 bugzilla mails in 2.5 years.
> That's about 1 every 3 days on average.
> 
> If we push bugzilla to a -dev list, then reports there would get less
> visibility, making it easier to just send bugreports to the list. Also,
> I find it useful to know that there's a bug lurking somewhere, even if
> you are not affected.
> 
> Nevertheless, I got two comments who supported the idea of creating a
> separate -dev list, I can do that if need to be. But before doing that
> I'd like to clarify the aims of the dev list.
> 
> Apart from bugzilla mail, what discussions should be moved to the dev
> list?
> 
> * I frequently post patches here in response to user requests
> * Sometimes I feel I need to explain some things in response to a user
> request that describes code (for example: you can find this code here
> and there, where you can tweak it)
> 
> Currently I don't feel that the list traffic is overwhelming (10-15
> messages daily) and until it becomes irritating I would vote against
> separating discussions to a separate -dev list.
> 
> What I saw in other projects, is that this separation is performed when
> the number of support questions become so large that developers would
> prefer to ignore that, and I wouldn't want to move off the "user" list.
> 
> So what is your opinion? Please respond
> 
>   1) create a separate "dev" list as proposed and keep the current list
> for user questions
>   2) create a separate "bugs" list, only to have bugzilla mail
>   3) don't do anything, bugzilla mail is fine here
>   4) stop bugzilla mail altogether
> 
> I would propose #3 right now and we had two suggestion for #1, but I'd
> like to gather more opinions in the light of the questions I've asked
> here.
> 
> I've set up a simple doodle based poll here:
> 
> http://www.doodle.com/mn68mrc5977skwsd
> 
> Please respond there, so it is easier to collect the responses. Lance,
> Christopher, please also add your opinion to the Doodle poll. Thanks.

So far we have 11 votes for option #3 above (and no votes for any other
options). I know it's been only a day, but I'd like to close this
question tomorrow.

So if you have a different opinion, it is now time to voice it!


-- 
Bazsi



More information about the syslog-ng mailing list