Re: Migrating to the gitlab issue tracker

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 11/02/20 15:42, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/2/20 8:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:57:49PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>> On 10/30/20 10:16, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:01:27PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
>>>>> In experimenting with my mirror on gitlab though, I was unable to find a 
>>>>> way
>>>>> to configure it to send issue tracker notifications to the email list. A
>>>>> move to gitlab would likely mean, then:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. The cessation of (automatic) issue tracker mails to the list
>>>>
>>>> A bot could do this.
>>>
>>> I think a "bug traffic" mailing list (possibly but not necessarily
>>> separate from the main qemu development list) is important.
>>
>> What benefit is there to a bug traffic mailing list, as opposed to people
>> subscribing to direct bug notifications ? In both case people who are
>> interested in watching bugs can get the same content in their inboxes.
> 
> A mailing list would have archives (which can be helpful for archaeology
> of past bug traffic even when you were not a gitlab subscriber), and
> (depending on subscription settings) could permit additional
> conversation in response to traffic by non-gitlab contributors.  But you
> are right that a mailing list configured as read-only bug traffic (where
> replies are not permitted) has no benefit over developers directly
> subscribing to bug activity.
> 

BTW I think this could be handled by an "auto-CC" or "default-CC"
feature in the bug tracker. Simply subscribe the list automatically to
every new bug reported.

Laszlo