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From: Alex Legler <a3li@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [warning] the bug queue has 118 bugs
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:57:21
Message-Id: 4D092B83.4030409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [warning] the bug queue has 118 bugs by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 12/15/10 1:16 PM, Duncan wrote:
2 > Mike Frysinger posted on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:22:14 -0500 as excerpted:
3 >
4 >> On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 20:54:45 Jeroen Roovers wrote:
5 >>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:00:02 +0200 (EET) Alex Alexander wrote:
6 >>>> Our bug queue has 118 bugs!
7 >>>
8 >>> I am starting to wonder if this is helping. It looks like everyone now
9 >>> attempts to keep it <100 on a daily basis, but not to far <100, which
10 >>> means a lot of old, difficult, nasty bug reports are left unattended.
11 >>> Still, I got it down to about two dozen now.
12 >>
13 >> i think people will aim for whatever arbitrary limit is picked. so
14 >> raising it to say 200 wont help either.
15 >
16 > Agreed.
17 >
18 > Which begs the question[1], why not take the opportunity to lower it?
19 >
20
21 Just be careful:
22 That will result in more emails, and in people getting annoyed by them
23 putting filters on them, resulting in less people reading such emails,
24 which will result in more open bugs, and more emails, repeat ad infinitum.
25
26 Besides from that, I still don't really know why these things have to
27 appear on our technical mailinglist.
28
29 Alex

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