If something can be automated it should be. Some of the other testlink developers have been sending manual e-mails every time they do several commits. This is a complete waste of time and is completely repetitive. I set up automatic commit e-mails that get forwarded to a mailing list to improve this. This is better in many ways and should have been done a long time ago. The information everyone gets will be much more consistent this way. If people still want to send manual e-mails they can still do this as well. It really is just better every way you look at it. How many other changes are there like this that should be made?

This is the way I feel, but apparently not others. Recently in testlink this has caused somewhat of a stir. I have proposed that we move our code hosted on sourceforge to subversion. This is because sourceforge has finally just enabled this. There will be many benefits to making this move. Others think we should wait several months though and focus on 1.7. The issue I see with this is that it means we have to continue to work around our broken process for several more months. This is too bad. Hopefully we can get to this point sooner rather than later, and start seeing the benefits now.

Look at the thread