Re: Separate bugs list?

At 05:16 AM 6/10/00 -0400, Jon Parise wrote:

On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:34:42AM +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote: b) Our situation with bug reports isn't that great right now. Not many people take the time to close bug reports. Right now wanting to be on php-dev brings along with it a side-effect of having to look at the bug reports. I'm sure even some people who don't really want to receive them have already looked at some bug reports. It would make the bugs database situation much much worse. Look how many entries we have now. If you want to be on php-dev and be part of the development you should also be a part of the bugs. Why have all the fun and not try to contribute with the annoying part? A lot of the bug reports can be handled by people who are not core developers. Valid points, but I think that those interested in fixing bugs would take the extra few seconds to subscribe to the bugs list, too. It seems like a waste of bandwidth and list processing power to emplode such a large list (php-dev) to so many folks who just end up deleting the majority of the messages (I'd guess that bug reports account for over 60% of the traffic here).

A lot of people aren't really interested in fixing bugs (and won't subscribe) but when they by chance see a bug they can deal with, they do it. And yes, the answer people hate, what I do is filter the bug reports from the Email on the list and have two folders. I look at both folders but I really do think that people on php-dev should get the bug reports. Otherwise, they are on the wrong list and they should be on php-general.

Anyway, it seems like the better approach in the logical perspective is to split the list, but there are good arguments either way, so I have a feeling we'll never reach a clear decision and things will just stay the way they are.

I hope so :) Andi --- Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/