Proposal: Unsubscribe ~bzr from all code review mail

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 5/25/2011 2:09 PM, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> 
> On 5/25/2011 7:30 AM, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> As a result of ~bzr membership, I get a high volume of code review email
>> that I mostly ignore - I simply don't have enough hours in the day to
>> follow the discussions surrounding all merge proposals going on across
>> Bazaar and related projects.
> 
>> I would like to propose that ~bzr should be unsubscribed from all
>> branches. It's easy enough to subscribe to branches that you are
>> actually interested in receiving mail about - and if there are commons
>> subsets of branches that many people would want to subscribe to, let us
>> create dedicated teams for them.
> 
>> Max.
> 
> I have the same problem. I have ~1800 unread emails in my bzr code
> review mail folder and ~1400 unread emails in my bzr bugs mail folder
> (which doesn't include bzr-explorer, bzr-mac-installers or qbzr bugs).
> 
> Ciao,
> Gordon
> 
> 


^A m (select all, mark as read).

Given that you've already filtered them into folders, it doesn't sound
that difficult.

I understand the issue, my main concern is that as someone who does read
all of that mail (at least 90% of them), it really isn't that easy to
subscribe to everything. Mostly because newly created branches, bzr/2.3
vs bzr/2.4, etc.

Note that I think with structural subscriptions, you can manually
disable subscrptions. (Subscribe yourself directly, and then say you
don't want email.)

That may only work for bugs at the moment, but I imagine it will work
for more things soon.


The reason to put it on "unsubscribe if you don't want to see it", is
that you will get mail that you don't want, and then you can go
unsubscribe. If I "subscribe if you want it", *I* have to know that I'm
*not* getting mail that I should be getting. Which is certainly much
harder to prove.

John
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