Re: What do you think? Should we send JIRA.smartforg.org notifications to the developers list or to a separate distribution list? Please, send your opinion.

Ritu Sabharwal wrote:
> A separate distribution list would be a good option. Any developer who 
> wants to be updated about all the bugs and new changes can subscribe to it.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ritu.
> 
> Guijarro, Julio wrote:
>> We recently introduced JIRA (http://jira.smartfrog.org) to track issues
>> and feature requests and we have initially redirected all Jira
>> notifications to the developer's lists. In this way, any developer can
>> see what changes are being made and what bugs are being reported. This
>> can potentially generate quite a lot of traffic and I would like to know
>> what people think about it. The alternative would be to open a new
>> distribution list just for jira notifications or don't send any
>> notification because jira can be browsed by anyone.
>>
>> Please, let us know what you think.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Julio Guijarro.
>>

+1

Although many OSS projects use the bug tool to start discussion (e.g. 
Ant), Jira somehow creates so much noise that the mail list becomes a 
mess of updates. Case in point, I have 43,000 unread mail messages in my 
maven-dev email folder, most of which will be Jira stuff. As most of the 
jira updates are just individual developers doing their todo list stuff, 
or making minor annotations, you tend to skip the jira emails and focus 
on the other messages, which are inherently more interesting.



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