[silva-dev] notifications by the issue tracker about new issues?

Andrew Altepeter aaltepet at bethel.edu
Wed Sep 3 21:12:45 CEST 2003


Clemens raises a good point.  Although I'm not involved in the
development of silva, I still liked to see the problems that I might be
facing in my products.

Andy

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 14:08, Clemens Robbenhaar wrote:
> Hi silva-dev's:
> 
>  it seems the issue tracker does no longer send mails to silva-dev if a
> new issue is created.
>  
>  I remember there has been some confusion one time because several
> people misread the generated mail, assuming it has been a posting to
> silva-dev, not an issue creation. Someone seems to have disabled the
> posting to silva-dev to avoid this confusion.
> 
>  However I found this a useful feature to keep up to date with the
> current issues; it gives people a chance to nose in to a new issue, if
> the creator has not nodes them in already. This may be especially
> important in case of issues created by people not familiar with the
> tracker, because these people often nose in nobody. 
> 
>  The one occasion where some people misunderstood the mail has actually
> lead to some important insight that installation problems should not be
> handled in the issue tracker, so the confusion has produced some value
> at least.
> 
>  Of course one can periodically scan the issue tracer for new /
> unassigned issues but I am actually to lazy to do this at like to get
> notified instead ;-)
> 
>  If its only me, just forget it, but maybe someone else misses this
> feature, too?
> 
> Cheers,
> Clemens
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