Re: Proposal: Stop git hub digest emails

Hi All, Vincent,

I understand Vincent watches GitHub repos of interest to him so from his perspective digests are noise. This is what I consider to be a typical work mode for an active contributor. To immediately salvage this situation, I propose setting up a filter in the mail client. As a bonus, if digests are a global issue, one filter will fix them all.

OTOH, I'm also aware of participants who are not watching (all) the repos but still want to get a summary of active discussions in the group once in a while (reactive or monitoring participants). The digests are a solution that serves this audience. When folks join the group they'll get digests automatically without needing to do any extra work. It might be those are the only signals they get. We want to be inclusive of both the groups' needs and as such whatever tooling we put in place will always have to make some compromises, I'm afraid.

There's one interesting benefit in digests that is useful when you have to do archeology: digests leave a chronological paper trail of the group's GH issue and PR activity in https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/ that can be useful at times for editors and chairs in particular. I can still read archived mails sent to the lists in the 90s.

Unless more people feel strongly about the issue, I'd prefer to keep the current setup in place for the time being, and let active contributors filter out digests at their end.

Sounds reasonable?

Thanks,

-Anssi (DAS WG co-chair)

On 11. Feb 2020, at 2.38, Fuqiao Xue <xfq@w3.org<mailto:xfq@w3.org>> wrote:

Hi Vincent,

These emails were sent via github-notify-ml-config[1], and many groups are using it[2]. If many people in this group find it noisy, I can turn it off or create a separate mailing list specifically for receiving digest emails.

(Personally, I never read digest emails before, but as my GitHub emails becoming more and more, I found that digest emails were easier to find out what issue/PR I would like to read/comment, so I have started to read them now.)

Thanks,

Fuqiao

Footnotes:

[1] https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
[2] https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config/blob/master/mls.json

On Feb 11, 2020, at 7:58 AM, Vincent Scheib <scheib@google.com<mailto:scheib@google.com>> wrote:

Does anyone use the public-device-apis "Weekly github digest" emails?

From my perspective they are just noise.  Anyone needing to monitor github activity can manage their own reminder (via calendar, etc) and go to github directly.