[LLVMdev] LLVMbugs list suggestion

[John Criswell]

On 11/9/12 1:30 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> Currently the LLVMbugs list only receives emails when a new bug is
> filed or an existing bug gets finally resolved. The gcc-bugs list on the
> other hand receives an email for every new comment in bugzilla. This
> leads to much better transparency, because you can easily see which bugs
> are currently being worked on; while the current LLVMbugs setup left you
> totally in the dark.
> So my suggestion would be let the LLVMbugs list also receive mails for
> every new comment in bugzilla. The increase in traffic would be more
> than offset by the better oversight one gains.
>

Just to play devil's advocate, if you want to follow a bug, you can add 
yourself to the bug's CC list.  That way, people get email about bugs 
that interest them and don't get extra emails about bugs that they do 
not care about.

Also, our mailing list archives the emails that are sent to it.  If we 
followed your suggestion, I suspect we'd have a dramatic increase in 
emails, putting more pressure on the amount of storage available on the 
mailing list machine (which currently is the University of Illinois CS 
mailing list server which services all mailing lists for our department).

-- John T.