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El mié, 16/11/16, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> escribió:
Asunto: [Wikitech-l] Handling Phabricator notifications
Para: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Fecha: miércoles, 16 de noviembre, 2016 05:32
Hi, it seems that there is many
people struggling with following
Phabricator notifications. Being overwhelmed by
notifications defeats the
purpose of notifications. :)
This is an invitation to share some thoughts.
The main trick is of course to pay attention to what you
subscribe/unsubscribe to. Sometimes I ask myself: why am I
receiving this
notification, and after a quick investigation it turns out
that I am still
watching some project that I am not really interested
anymore, or at least
not at the extent that it would impede me to follow better
the projects
that I really want to follow.
I actually unsubscribe from many tasks, and that keeps the
signal high vs
noise ratio high.
Email preferences can also help a lot reducing the amount of
(what for you
constitutes) noise. Also, many people seem to struggle with
volume of
emails received and haven't really tried the alternative of
web
notifications, which (at least for me) allow for quicker
scanning + the
fabulous button "Mark all as read".
I also set many types of notifications to "ignore", because
for me at least
the information they bring doesn't compensate for the noise
they create. I
have copied my Maniphest email preferences at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF/Sandbox
just in case someone
finds them useful.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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