Although this change doesn't personally affect me because I'm not active on
Gerrit, my reading of the situation is similar to Giuseppe's. Sending
people potentially large numbers of automatic and unsolicited notifications
is not something that I would generally support, and I would likely believe
to be a misuse of communications tools and an inconsiderate use of others'
time, no matter how well-intentioned.
My impression of this change to communications is that it should have been
broadly discussed, and consensus requested through an RfC, before
implementation. Was there an RfC? Were there previous wide notifications
regarding this proposed change to communications?
Pine
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )