Re:Feature Flags: Theory vs. Reality
by JohnFen on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:42PM
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The point that I was making is that email might not be the best way of distributing this generally, because in many companies (and most of the larger ones), there is a high rate of companywide emails that amount to just spam. This increases the chances that these particular emails will get mentally categorized the same way and ultimately ignored.
I know that I delete unread about 80% of the internal company emails I get because they're not actually useful, and have better uses for my time.
An email like this, assuming that my own projects are not often mentioned in them, would rapidly get ignored, I imagine.
If the goal is to have the affected teams alerted to the situation, it seems like it would be better distributed directly to the teams individually (a targeted email just to the teams involved) rather than spammed to all of the devs in the organization.
I know that I delete unread about 80% of the internal company emails I get because they're not actually useful, and have better uses for my time.
An email like this, assuming that my own projects are not often mentioned in them, would rapidly get ignored, I imagine.
If the goal is to have the affected teams alerted to the situation, it seems like it would be better distributed directly to the teams individually (a targeted email just to the teams involved) rather than spammed to all of the devs in the organization.