The "original" philosophy was that
discussions and decisions were made in the Jira items, so the TC
list should be notified to keep people in the loop. This differs
from the assumption of just the listed members, but I'm not
aware of the details of that configuration.
Not disputing that original approach, I just filter anything
obviously from Jira and don't read it...I do status updates in
the tool itself.
The default (way back when) was that all TC members were
included, and I believe that to enter items (remember that
comments to the TC list are still comments, and if you use Jira
SOMEONE needs to enter them) you had to also be listed as a
"developer".
Fortunately my TCs are relatively slowly changing now, and
relatively small, so this hasn't been much of an issue.
But I'd rather people enter their own comments than find that
special someone to take all of the emails and figure out what's
being commented on.
My two cents...Jira is a useful tool; notification was the
original reason for making all TC members aware of changes, but
anyone can read the summary at any time.
Thanks!
bill
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On 8/6/12 5:40 PM, Chet Ensign wrote:
True Peter, it is easy to add a person. And you bring up another good
reason not to bulk add people, particularly for those who work on
multiple TCs.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Peter F Brown <peter@peterfbrown.com> wrote:
Chet,
I personally think that it is a bad idea to automatically add all TC members.
By default, once added, users receive notifications of everything. The resultant flood can turn people off as much as please those for whom this information is valuable.
If someone wants to be added, it's a relatively simple task, no?
-----Original Message-----
From: Chet Ensign [mailto:chet.ensign@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Monday, 06 August, 2012 11:58
To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [chairs] For those TCs using JIRA
Bill Cox of the EMIX TC suggested that I should share the following information with you.
Apparently, it was past practice to regularly update JIRA with new members who joined TCs. I wasn't aware of the practice and I have been updating participants in TCs only when asked.
Adding members to JIRA is presently very time consuming. We may have a fix in place in the future to work off the member database but for now I must set up users by hand. So I don't plan at present to resume regular whole-scale updates.
If you are aware of people in your TC who should have access to the TC's JIRA project but do not, please let me know and I will be happy to set them up.
Let me know if you have any questions.
/chet
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