Re: Bug#12856: bug system shouldn't send 200Kb-mails to maintainers
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:
> (Please preserve `To: debian-devel' and `Cc: 12856-quiet@bugs'.)
>
> Santiago Vila Doncel writes ("Bug#12856: bug system shouldn't send 200Kb-mails to maintainers"):
> ...
> > 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.
I have always relied on this list to tell me about bugs. It seems that the
current incarnation of the bug tracking system never sends a bug report TO
the maintainer. It sends them to debian-bugs-xxx, but I never get them
addressed to me personally, so I often miss the report, or don't see it
till I'm cleaning out my inbox. As a result I utilise these reports to
tell me about new bugs. In particular, a grep of the Friday report against
my name provides a list of all my bug reports.
Yes, the file has gotten quite large of late, but, compared to the volume
of "other junk" that I get, it is a small part of the overall picture. I
realise that this is not true for everyone.
>
> > 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.
It would be nice if the report was maintainer specific, but I don't see
any pressing need for this specificity. Maybe others can speak to this
issue better than I.
>
> Note that you can already get the behaviour Santiago Doncel would like
> by having a cron job mail request@bugs with `index maint <yourself>' !
>
Cool! I'll have to try that one out!
Waiting is,
Dwarf
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