Re: proposal: drop bugzilla@jessica.w3.org emails from public-html human lists

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Tantek Çelik wrote:
>> HTML WG:
>>
>> I propose that we drop the cc'ing from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org
>> to public-html lists that are used by/for humans for discussion.
>>
>> At a minimum: public-html@w3.org and public-html-a11y@w3.org.
>
> FWIW I find the current setup works well for me. It is highly useful to get
> an email per bug filed, even though there is some noise, because it provides
> the primary means of locating relevant technical discussion and possible
> spec changes.
>
> I could subscribe to another list that provided the same content. I would
> prefer not to. In general if people want to ignore all bugmail this is
> rather easy to set up as a mail filter. It is not clear to me that the
> burden should be on people who do want to follow the proposed spec changes
> compared to people who do not.

Agreed with jgraham.  I find the current level of noise to be
tolerable (though I'd always like a little more spam filtering), and
the amount of information received is very useful.  The fact that we
have two discussion areas is sorta bad already; this at least ensures
a partial merging of the two channels that is sufficient for me.

public-html-bugzilla@ isn't really acceptable, because it gets *all*
bugmail, not just new bug reports.  I never want to see a batch of 50
"a label changed!" emails again.

A separate mailing list that only received new bugs would be
acceptable, but I've no opinion on whether requiring people to
subscribe to another list is better than just requiring the people who
hate the bugmail to set up a filter.  The effort seems to be similar
in either case.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 15 November 2010 21:44:12 UTC