Re: Bug#12856: bug system shouldn't send 200Kb-mails to maintainers
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Santiago Vila Doncel writes ("Bug#12856: bug system shouldn't send 200Kb-mails to maintainers"):
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> The bug system sends "Unanswered problem reports by date" and "Unanswered
> problem reports by maintainer and package" every week.
>
> These mails are about 200K long, and their usefulness is doubtful.
> IMHO, this weekly reports should have stopped some time ago.
This is an interesting opinion. Obviously I'll do what the
maintainers want.
> Instead, I would like to receive, as a maintainer, a weekly list summary
> of all my bugs, specifying clearly their status (forwarded/not forwarded),
> their severity, and their age.
>
> Suggestion, if possible: A command called "mail-me-my-bugs" in
> master.debian.org would allow each developer to receive this kind of
> reports with the desired periodicity by using the crontab file.
I'd like there to be some discussion about what would be useful
features.
Note that you can already get the behaviour Santiago Doncel would like
by having a cron job mail request@bugs with `index maint <yourself>' !
Ian.
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