Re: Fyi: Weekly Digest are now monthly

I have to agree with Richard here. For all of what he says, and in 
addition because recently, there haven't been many digests anyway (by my 
count, only one in March, and unless the switch to monthly was made 
several weeks ago, only one (or maybe zero?) in April.

Regards,   Martin.

On 2023-04-27 02:55, r12a wrote:
> I don't assiduously follow the spec-prod list, and in some ways that 
> makes my comment appear less relevant, but in other ways it makes it 
> more so, because digests have more value.
> 
> Spec-prod emails bypass my inbox into a folder that i look into from 
> time to time. It's extremely useful to be able to see in a compact list 
> form what discussions & PRs have been taking place over the past week, 
> and then quickly link to the discussions i've missed that are of 
> interest.  Given the size of the weekly digests, a monthly digest will 
> probably be too long to be effective. But perhaps more important, it is 
> not timely enough to intersect with discussions in a timely way – it 
> will probably be very late to join many discussions.  The point of a 
> digest is not to simply have a list of what happened, but it's to draw 
> your attention so that you can join a discussion that's of interest 
> while it is happening.
> 
> I receive many daily and weekly digests they are clearly labelled in the 
> subject line, so i find it hard to think that, if you don't want to read 
> it,  it's a significant chore to hit the delete button once a week.
> 
> ri
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Philippe Le Hégaret wrote on 26/04/2023 16:26:
>> Fyi, we switched to monthly notifications to limit the noise:
>>  https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config/pull/257
>>
>> kuddos to @dontcallmedom and @marcoscaceres.
>>
>> Next digest will be this Monday.
>>
>> Feel free to follow up here if you'd prefer something else.
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>> On 12/12/2022 3:19 PM, fantasai wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> I am wondering if anyone finds these automated “weekly digest” emails 
>>> useful; and even if they are useful, can we push them to a different 
>>> mailing list for people who *want* such automatic notifications?
>>>
>>> I think it would be a lot better for spec-prod if we can have less 
>>> noise, and encourage more spec editors to join for whatever few 
>>> relevant, but high-quality, human-initiated conversations we happen 
>>> to have.
>>>
>>> I am sure the Bikeshed and Respec editors can make an effort to 
>>> manually push to spec-prod any critical notifications that need the 
>>> full attention of W3C spec editors.
>>>
>>> Thanks~
>>> ~fantasai
>>>
>>

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