[gentoo-dev] Fw: "Please let's talk if spamming everyone pointlessly is really needed."

[Jeroen Roovers]

Behold the magic of emergency announcements.

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:56:03 +0200
From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
Cc: bugzilla@g.o, comrel@g.o
Subject: Re: "Please let's talk if spamming everyone pointlessly is
really needed."


Am Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2018, 22:39:22 CEST schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> Am Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2018, 20:51:30 CEST schrieb Jeroen Roovers:
> > What's going on here?
> >
> > "Please let's talk if spamming everyone pointlessly is really
> > needed." ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > If your mind is made up about the point of mass
> > changes, then why bother enquiring about it? I would think infra@
> > takes such actions to protect the services, not to argue about the
> > merits of changes.
>
> This wasn't infra, this was me. Following a complaint on #g-comrel, I
> checked the bug backlog and saw that you changed (likely much) more
> than 50 bugs in a very short time. On a quick glance the changes were
> against longstanding policy.
>

After team-internal discussion I've reactivated your account.

Please,

* involve the community on the mailing lists regarding similar policy
  changes,
* at least try coordinate with Infra whether mass mails in such cases
  could be suppressed somehow,
* and try to act in a way that the rest of us somewhat understands.

The ban can be reinstated if the majority of comrel thinks it's
necessary.

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@g.o
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)