E-mail Organization

[Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com>]

dev@beam.apache.org gets a lot of e-mail. I was wondering how other Apache
projects help their contributors focus on design/project discussions (such
as SQL, SplittableDoFn, Portability, Samza, Flink, Testing, ...)?

I'm looking for a solution that allows people to tag a discussion with
multiple topics, and that tags can be added after the e-mail has been sent
as the discussion may cross multiple topics such as testing and SQL.

I was initially thinking that we could embed tags like "topic:sql" in the
message body and if something was part of multiple tags it would be
"topic:sql topic:testing" to make it easy

What do you think?

Re: E-mail Organization

[Robert Bradshaw <ro...@google.com>]

I was about to suggest tags in subject lines as well. Easier to see in
email listings than anything in the body.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 7:22 PM Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote:

> Putting the tags in the subject line is inline with the style of what we
> currently do using [DISCUSS], [VOTE], [BEAM-YYY] so I like that. (I forgot
> that you can edit subject after the fact, thanks for pointing that out.)
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:04 AM Kenneth Knowles <ke...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> The traditional thing to do is something like [SQL] or [Portability] in
>> the subject. Cannot be added after the email has been sent, but your email
>> client can probably do that part, right? If another user changes the
>> subject line to add more tags in their reply, I think things like gmail
>> will actually keep the thread intact and it will show up in searches too.
>> Lots of lightweight options that don't require us to invent anything.
>>
>> Kenn
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 9:21 AM Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Kafka uses KIPs
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals
>>>
>>> Flink uses FLIPs
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Flink+Improvement+Proposals
>>>
>>> So Beam - BIPs ????
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:48 PM Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> dev@beam.apache.org gets a lot of e-mail. I was wondering how other
>>>> Apache projects help their contributors focus on design/project discussions
>>>> (such as SQL, SplittableDoFn, Portability, Samza, Flink, Testing, ...)?
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a solution that allows people to tag a discussion with
>>>> multiple topics, and that tags can be added after the e-mail has been sent
>>>> as the discussion may cross multiple topics such as testing and SQL.
>>>>
>>>> I was initially thinking that we could embed tags like "topic:sql" in
>>>> the message body and if something was part of multiple tags it would be
>>>> "topic:sql topic:testing" to make it easy
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>

Re: E-mail Organization

[Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com>]

Putting the tags in the subject line is inline with the style of what we
currently do using [DISCUSS], [VOTE], [BEAM-YYY] so I like that. (I forgot
that you can edit subject after the fact, thanks for pointing that out.)

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:04 AM Kenneth Knowles <ke...@apache.org> wrote:

> The traditional thing to do is something like [SQL] or [Portability] in
> the subject. Cannot be added after the email has been sent, but your email
> client can probably do that part, right? If another user changes the
> subject line to add more tags in their reply, I think things like gmail
> will actually keep the thread intact and it will show up in searches too.
> Lots of lightweight options that don't require us to invent anything.
>
> Kenn
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 9:21 AM Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Kafka uses KIPs
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals
>>
>> Flink uses FLIPs
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Flink+Improvement+Proposals
>>
>> So Beam - BIPs ????
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:48 PM Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> dev@beam.apache.org gets a lot of e-mail. I was wondering how other
>>> Apache projects help their contributors focus on design/project discussions
>>> (such as SQL, SplittableDoFn, Portability, Samza, Flink, Testing, ...)?
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a solution that allows people to tag a discussion with
>>> multiple topics, and that tags can be added after the e-mail has been sent
>>> as the discussion may cross multiple topics such as testing and SQL.
>>>
>>> I was initially thinking that we could embed tags like "topic:sql" in
>>> the message body and if something was part of multiple tags it would be
>>> "topic:sql topic:testing" to make it easy
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>

Re: E-mail Organization

[Kenneth Knowles <ke...@apache.org>]

The traditional thing to do is something like [SQL] or [Portability] in the
subject. Cannot be added after the email has been sent, but your email
client can probably do that part, right? If another user changes the
subject line to add more tags in their reply, I think things like gmail
will actually keep the thread intact and it will show up in searches too.
Lots of lightweight options that don't require us to invent anything.

Kenn

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 9:21 AM Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org> wrote:

> Kafka uses KIPs
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals
>
> Flink uses FLIPs
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Flink+Improvement+Proposals
>
> So Beam - BIPs ????
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:48 PM Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> dev@beam.apache.org gets a lot of e-mail. I was wondering how other
>> Apache projects help their contributors focus on design/project discussions
>> (such as SQL, SplittableDoFn, Portability, Samza, Flink, Testing, ...)?
>>
>> I'm looking for a solution that allows people to tag a discussion with
>> multiple topics, and that tags can be added after the e-mail has been sent
>> as the discussion may cross multiple topics such as testing and SQL.
>>
>> I was initially thinking that we could embed tags like "topic:sql" in the
>> message body and if something was part of multiple tags it would be
>> "topic:sql topic:testing" to make it easy
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>

Re: E-mail Organization

[Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org>]

Kafka uses KIPs
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals

Flink uses FLIPs
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Flink+Improvement+Proposals

So Beam - BIPs ????

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:48 PM Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote:

> dev@beam.apache.org gets a lot of e-mail. I was wondering how other
> Apache projects help their contributors focus on design/project discussions
> (such as SQL, SplittableDoFn, Portability, Samza, Flink, Testing, ...)?
>
> I'm looking for a solution that allows people to tag a discussion with
> multiple topics, and that tags can be added after the e-mail has been sent
> as the discussion may cross multiple topics such as testing and SQL.
>
> I was initially thinking that we could embed tags like "topic:sql" in the
> message body and if something was part of multiple tags it would be
> "topic:sql topic:testing" to make it easy
>
> What do you think?
>