Re: How do Subversion developers stay aware of each other?

Carl Gutwin wrote:
>
> - When issues move from the mailing list to the issue tracking system,
> does all further discussion also move over as well? Is part of the
> reason for the move to reduce traffic on the main dev list? Do people
> treat the issue tracker as basically the same type of forum as the
> mailing list (but focused on the issue)?

No, we try to keep on-going discussion on the mailing list, and put into the issue tracker only reproduction recipes, reasonably firm thoughts on how to deal with the issue, patches, links to the mailing list discussion threads, and so on. Effectively an on-going summary of the useful information that has come up during discussion. We recognise that the issue tracker is (for us) not as good as e-mail for having a conversation, and that if the whole conversation were recorded in it, the useful information would be too diluted to be useful.

> Have you ever run into the
> problem of an issue moving to the tracker, but then the conversation
> about that issue was not as public as it should have been?

Yes: occasionally this starts to happen, and usually someone will gently remind them "Hey, please move this discussion back to the mailing list."

- Julian

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Received on Mon Mar 8 15:44:51 2004