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Suspension shouldn't leave you out of receiving e-mails from Bugzilla; |
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if so, I consider that a bug. |
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On 6/9/2018 12:59 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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> Hello fellow humans, |
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> this is a brief headsup about my current inability to communicate |
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> through the official channel bugs.gentoo.org because of what seems like |
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> a ComRel[1] action[2] suspending my account. If you have important |
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> information to share on the many hundreds of packages I maintain, do |
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> not hesitate to use my e-mail address directly or approach me on IRC |
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> (Freenode or OFTC). |
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> Kind regards, |
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> jer |
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> [1] I.e. the people purportedly responsible for ensuring proper |
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> communications between members of the Gentoo Linux community. |
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> [2] |
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> https://rooversj.home.xs4all.nl/gentoo/2018-06-07-204422_1920x1080_scrot.png |
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> Begin forwarded message: |
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> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 22:39:22 +0200 |
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> From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> |
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> To: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> |
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> Cc: bugzilla@g.o, comrel@g.o |
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> Subject: Re: "Please let's talk if spamming everyone pointlessly is |
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> really needed." |
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> Am Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2018, 20:51:30 CEST schrieb Jeroen Roovers: |
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>> What's going on here? |
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>> "Please let's talk if spamming everyone pointlessly is really needed." |
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>> ^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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>> If your mind is made up about the point of mass |
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>> changes, then why bother enquiring about it? I would think infra@ |
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>> takes such actions to protect the services, not to argue about the |
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>> merits of changes. |
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> This wasn't infra, this was me. Following a complaint on #g-comrel, I |
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> checked the bug backlog and saw that you changed (likely much) more |
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> than 50 bugs in a very short time. On a quick glance the changes were |
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> against longstanding policy. |
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> Thank you for getting back. |
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> * If you see the necessity to change a long-standing guideline, |
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> * and if that involves a lot of people getting a lot of non-informative |
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> bugmail ("spam"), |
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> I would be very grateful if you could |
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> * inform the community about the policy change on the mailing lists, |
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> * and coordinate with Infra so the mails are suppressed somehow. |
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> Thank you. I will happily re-activate your account if you agree to |
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> this, otherwise I'll defer a decision on that to the rest of comrel and |
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> a vote. |
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>> For my part, I was doing what I have been doing for more than a |
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>> decade. |
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> That is part of the problem. |
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