Re: minutes of ESC call ...

On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 11:37 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> Just to voice my opinion, I too would be reluctant to see this 
> integration.  We core devs already receive tons of mails from bugzilla 
> many of which are pretty much noise.

        :-) I guess, there is no shortage of bugs to be CC'd on.

>  And I'm personally not very fond of this type of automatic messages
> cluttering bugzilla comments.

        I love the "fixed in 3.6.1" type automated comments - they're -really-
useful for QA to see which versions a bug is fixed in and to set
expectations right I guess.

        I suppose we could ask/pay Tollef to work on extending:

        https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email

        To add some flag magic for a new option for some the "ignore fixedin
XYZ" version stuff - but that's a bit of a PITA to maintain going
forward I suspect; I wonder if a mail filter could do the same.

> I'm also equally concerned about fragmenting our discussion platforms. 
> Even without gerrit, splitting the discussion between the mailing list 
> and bugzilla was (to me) hard enough.

        Yep - I guess auto-spamming can go too far; OTOH, it is rather relevant
that a fix for a bug has shown up and useful for a reporter to know that
there is a build of it to try out. Also we fix on average ~6 bugs per
day though we want to raise that - so, even if they're all in calc - if
we get it right with a single new bugzilla comment that says:

        "a gerrit branch, with a patch that fixes this bug was built
         for the specified platform >here<"

        And then no further comments afterwards seems like it might be on the
acceptable side ?

        Anyhow - thanks for raising the issue ! :-)

        ATB,

                Michael.

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