25 Apr
2016
25 Apr
'16
12:27 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Hi,
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
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.
Thanks
-Vincent
Anca
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