Re: Proposal: Stop git hub digest emails

Sounds as if they're valuable, and I can work an email filter, so carry on.
;)

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:22 AM Kostiainen, Anssi <
anssi.kostiainen@intel.com> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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.
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