Re: Patch to make common octave_dock_widget class

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/07/2013 08:56 AM, c. wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2013, at 14:08, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > This made me think, though. Would it be helpful to subscribe the
> > maintainer list to the patch and bug trackers? I don't know if people
> > would dislike the higher volume, or if everyone who is already
> > interested in being notified of bugs and patches is already subscribed
> > to those lists.
>
> I would vote for subscribing.
> The trackers seem like a very good place to store contributions but not as good 
> for carrying on the discussion about them.
>
> c.

In some cases, it makes sense to me to have discussions about bug 
reports move to the maintainers list.  For example, when there is some 
implementation issue that needs to be decided.  But generally, I think 
it is best to have the discussions kept with the bug reports themselves. 
 That way, when someone searches bug reports later, they will find all 
the discussion.  If the notifications are sent to the maintainers list, 
I expect that people will start discussing the bugs on the mailing list, 
and there will be no clue in the tracker that his has happened.  People 
looking later in the tracker will be confused about what happened 
because they will see only part of the discussion.

jwe