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Hello, |
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TL;DR: all new bugs related to packages in GURU should be assigned/CC-ed |
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to guru-bugs@g.o rather than guru@g.o. The new alias is entirely opt- |
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in, and people interested in bug mail should watch it via Bugzilla's |
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'email preferences'. |
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The recent tinderboxing effort against GURU packages has caused tons of |
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mail to be delivered to GURU contributor's mailboxes. I am sorry about |
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that, I do realize that you never expected that signing up for GURU |
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would result in getting hundreds of mails every day. Let's be honest -- |
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when I set up the mail aliases for GURU, I wasn't sure the project would |
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catch, not to mention someone suddenly starting to file such a large |
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number of bugs without any heads up. |
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Resolving this is a non-trivial problem. While in Gentoo the amount of |
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bug spam is reduced by assigning them directly to package maintainers, |
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GURU is generally a 'free for all' project. While some of the |
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contributors are listing themselves as maintainers of individual |
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packages, we generally assume anyone can fix anything and FWICS there |
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are a few people who actually actively work on resolving bugs everywhere |
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(thank you!). |
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For this reason, I've decided to create a new opt-in mail alias, guru- |
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bugs@.g.o. All new package bugs should either be assigned to this |
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alias, or CC-ed to it (if assigning to actual maintainers). The previous |
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aliases should only be used for the rare need of actually reaching all |
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people in the project. |
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I've 'reassigned' all existing bugs to the new alias to cease |
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the further bug spam. Actually, I've just changed the email address of |
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the old Bugzilla account to avoid additional mails about reassignment. |
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If you're interested in following the bug mail for GURU, please use |
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the watching feature found in Bugzilla's 'Email Preferences'. |
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Thank you for your work on GURU! |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |