Re: [gentoo-dev] Email Overload; Make summaries and bugs for test requests

[Svyatogor]

Why do I have a feeling this is another "great proposal" which everyone
agreed with but didn't bother to go further and suggest it's
implementation? Can someone update me on the status? Probably a GLEP is
required, then I could right it.

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:24:36 -0400
Jason Wever <weeve@g.o> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Since our -dev mailing list is now receiving an enormous amount of
> traffic each day, I'd like to suggest bringing/bring back up the
> summaries idea previously mentioned a few months ago.  Due to the fact
> that we all have limited time to work on Gentoo, and we can't spend
> all of it reading the 50+ emails on -dev every day (not to mention
> other list(s) we may be on).. So please, if a thread ends up resulting
> in something devs need to read(i.e. policy changes), please make a
> summary email.
>
> Also, for sparc, if you want us to test something, it is *HIGHLY
> SUGGESTED* that you make a bug for it and CC the sparc team on it
> <sparc@g.o>. As I've mentioned in the above paragraph about
> email overload, it's easy for your test request to get lost in the
> shuffle(especially if it's at the top of the 50+ emails to read).
> This will guarantee the best response from the team.  If you want to
> do whatever with your ebuild(s) in the test request by a certain date,
> please indicate that in the bug.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jason Wever
> Gentoo/Sparc Team Lead
>


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