Bill Nottingham said the following on 03/06/2008 11:54 AM Pacific Time:
Jon Stanley (jonstanley(a)gmail.com) said:
> John Poelstra and I were just thinking about a mailing list for
> watching incoming bugs. Unfortunately, I don't know that there's the
> right combination of checkboxes in Bugzilla to just get mail about new
> bugs. However, filtering based on mail header could get that - every
> new bugmail that Bugzilla sends has a header of
> "X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: New" that could be filtered on.
>
> The question is whether or not mailman is capable of filtering based
> on arbitrary header values. Note that this question doesn't mean
> we'll actually do this, we're still mulling over whether or not it's
> actually a good idea at all (and input on that front is welcomed
> too!). However, we want to know if it's technically possible or how
> much effort would be needed to accommodate the request.
Why is this better than a RSS feed or similar?
Bill
Mostly different work styles and how you approach your "work". A lot of
people work from email as a task list. I tend to approach a lot of tasks
in "batches" where I collect work items, address them, and cross them
off a list. If the folder is empty I know I am up to date. I would
agree an RSS reader could fill the same function.
This is different than opening a web browser and manually querying
bugzilla to locate "work items".... push vs. pull information flow.
John