[apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

[Sheng Zha <no...@github.com>]

# Problem Statement

Before setting up the mirroring, activity on dev@mxnet.apache.org and on GitHub are disconnected. Community members need to manually bring discussion on GitHub to the dev@ list by sending a notification with a link, and vise versa. This problem has been discussed (and [voted on](https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5375f46e9e358603fdabb46d97c838420d827e79e189f3ffbbdc1b57@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E)) and solutions have been proposed in the past, but was shelved due to concerns on large amount of traffic. Still, fixing the communication gap is greatly beneficial for a healthy community.

# Proposal

This is an RFC (and demo) for bidirectional mirroring of GitHub issues with `[RFC]` in the subject on the dev@mxnet.apache.org. By mirroring the RFCs in GitHub issues on dev@ automatically, community members can join the discussion on new proposals either on GitHub, or on dev@ list, within the same conversation. Also, this decreases the burden on people who are writing new proposals as it would no longer be necessary to duplicate the notification to both channels.

# Approach

The mirroring is achieved through setting up an email filter for the desired subset of emails and automatically forward them to the dev@ list.

GitHub notifications already allow joining GitHub conversations through replying to the notification email (with reply-to address notifications@github.com). GitHub notification emails that are automatically forwarded will have notifications@github.com as the sender, and thus replying to the email on dev@ will send the message back to the GitHub. For message on GitHub, the automatic forwarding will send the message to the same email thread. As a result, messages from both channels will show as a single cohesive conversation.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC][WIP] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

[Rakesh Vasudevan <no...@github.com>]

@mxnet-label-bot add [RFC]

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC][WIP] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

[Lai Wei <no...@github.com>]

+1 cycled reference between github disucssion and dev list dicussion is confusing.

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC][WIP] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

[Junru Shao <no...@github.com>]

+1 for the proposal!

BTW shall we have an option to block messages sent by the label bot to avoid too much traffic?

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

[Sheng Zha <no...@github.com>]

RFC issue mirroring has been up and running. The mirroring on the email side requires replying all to the thread on dev@.

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC][WIP] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

[Sheng Zha <zh...@apache.org>]

Thanks for the suggestions. For now I've put in an exclusion rule for mxnet-label-bot but I'm not sure whether it's effective yet. I will try it out.

-sz

On 2019/08/05 18:15:37, Marco de Abreu <no...@github.com> wrote: 
> Yeah anything involving the label bot should be blocked if possible
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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC][WIP] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

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Yeah anything involving the label bot should be blocked if possible

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC][WIP] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

[Ade <no...@github.com>]

thats a good option 

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

[Sheng Zha <no...@github.com>]

Closed #15749.

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC] RFC Issue Mirroring to dev@mxnet.apache.org (#15749)

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Hey, this is the MXNet Label Bot. 
 Thank you for submitting the issue! I will try and suggest some labels so that the appropriate MXNet community members can help resolve it. 
 Here are my recommended labels: Doc

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