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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Response to a "friendly note" about changing bug reports
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:56:57
Message-Id: 201308070157.05049.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Response to a "friendly note" about changing bug reports by Jeroen Roovers
1 Am Dienstag, 6. August 2013, 23:46:08 schrieb Jeroen Roovers:
2 > 23:37:25 <willikins> rej, you have notes! [21:13] <mrueg> Let me
3 > rephrase this: Just a friendly notice to please refrain from rephrasing
4 > bug summaries from "Stabilize ${P}" to "${P} stable req". This just
5 > adds unneeded noise to the bug. I don't want this on bugs I've reported
6 > or am assigned to.
7 >
8 >
9 > This is my equally short and "friendly" note: It's not going to happen.
10 > Forget about it. They are not "your" bug reports and anyone is
11 > actually /welcome/ to improve them. Get used to it.
12 >
13 > To get technical on the "improvement" bit, we have agreed time on time
14 > that stating the atom and then the action is the way to go. The main
15 > reasons is that it helps people who need to regularly read /lists/ of
16 > bug summaries sort them better. Until we get a specific [Atoms] field
17 > implemented, it will need to stay this way.
18 >
19
20 Jer,
21
22 please stop making whitespace noise on bugs that you have absolutely no
23 relation to. It just causes unnecessary bugmail. If maintainers care they will
24 change it themselves.
25
26 Cheers,
27 Andreas
28
29 --
30 Andreas K. Huettel
31 Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde)
32 dilfridge@g.o
33 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Response to a "friendly note" about changing bug reports Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@g.o>