On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Mortagne <
thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
Then [Contrib][<Project>] I guess.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Anca Luca <lucaa(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Actually I don't like the idea of having the
name of the application
itself
and not a unique keyword because it's not
easy to have filters in the
mail
> client for all the names of the applications on contrib (I cannot
imagine
how I
would create these filters). With a single keyword filters are
easier
to do.
Let's please decide quickly on this, because I see there is already
contrib
related activity that I am missing...
Thanks,
Anca
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Eduard Moraru <enygma2002(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > > On 08 Apr 2016, at 11:43, Anca Luca <lucaa(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Since
http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/jrug6cbbqpia5bx4 (but not
only)
> > the
> > > rule says that we should discuss contrib related stuff with the
> > community.
> > > In my case, I cannot manage to follow all the mails on the
> > devs(a)xwiki.org
> > > (because they are a lot) but I would be particularly interested of
not
> > > missing the ones about contrib
extensions.
> >
> > Since the dev rules for xwiki contrib are now the same as for xwiki
core
>> > (i.e.
dev.xwiki.org), I’m not sure if it makes sense to
differentiate
> >
proposals. Maybe you could just filter mails with "[Proposal]" and
> "[VOTE]”?
> >
> > > However, today, I don't know how
> > > to differentiate them, I would need to read all devs(a)xwiki.org to
not
> > miss
> > > one.
> > >
> > > There are multiple solutions that I can propose for this, please
let
me
> > > know what you think:
> > > 1/ have a contrib mailing list
> >
> > I feel that xwiki-contrib might be large enough now to warrant a
mailing
> > list but maybe not 2 (users and devs).
> >
> > However there are issues:
> >
> > * Notifications from jira. We could have a single contrib(a)xwiki.org
> > mailing for everything related to contrib (users, devs,
notifications).
> >
> > * Users don’t know if what they’re using from e.x.o is from Core or
from
> > Contrib so they’d have a hard time
choosing the right list from
> >
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/MailingLists. For
example
> > right now we have: "users(a)xwiki.org
: For questions about using
XWiki,
> > using the XWiki API, suggestions for
improvements, ideas, etc.”
> >
> >
> > > 2/ have an alias for the contrib that would send on the same list,
this
>> > way
>> > > we could filter by the "to" field
>> > > 3/ have a convention about mails related to contrib (e.g.
[Contrib]
in
>> > the
>> > > subject) that would allow to filter
>> >
>> > This is probably the simplest ATM. The pros is that it wouldn’t
create
> any
> > fragmentation between Contrib and Core, which is probably a good
thing.
>> >
>> > > 4/ any other technical solution that I didn't think about that
would
>> > allow
>> > > to automatically decide if a mail is about contrib or not, without
>> > reading
>> > > it :D
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > 1, 2 and even 4 are perfectly fine with me, 3 is a bit risky
because
> >
people
> > > might not follow conventions.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > If we follow the direction that we’re trying to take, which is to
have a
> > single large community (ie bring contrib
and core together), I think
the
> > best is to keep using the same lists as
now but do a best effort of
using
> > "[Contrib]” for mails related only
to contrib stuff.
> >
>
> IMO contrib devs should be up to date with the changes in the platform
and
>> we should keep the communication tight with the platform. As we can
see,
>> many topics on contrib apps trace down
to the platform and vice-versa.
>>
>> It would also not be very helpful for the project/community to do
such a
>
segregation, so I agree with Vincent.
>
> Since we are talking about contrib (which are devs and which have a
guide
> to follow), as Thomas suggested, it would be
a helpful idea to mention
the
> app in the subject so that we can apply
filters in the mail client,
should
we need
them.
Thanks,
Eduard
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> > Anca
>
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