On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 at 16:06, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, December 1, 2024 10:27:29 PM MST Manu via
> Digitalmars-d-announce
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 at 13:41, Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce <
> >
> > digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday, 2 December 2024 at 02:13:52 UTC, Manu wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 at 05:40, Robert Schadek via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >> Earlier today I migrated the phobos' bugzilla issues from bugzilla to github https://github.com/dlang/phobos/issues
> > > >>
> > > >> Next I'll move druntime and dmd (this year).
> > > >>
> > > >> Sorry to taking so long.
> > > >
> > > > Cool story; I particularly loved the ~1000 emails I received overnight that I had to sift through the delete :P
> > >
> > > Then you'll love the waaaay more you'll get from the dmd/druntime one.
> > >
> > > This is what email routing rules are for.
> >
> > Yeah, nar... I kinda reckon you need to find as way to suppress mailing
> out
> > thousands of spam emails to every subscriber to the big database before clicking the go button? Maybe blanket-unsubscribe everyone from the old issue tracker before migrating? Just drop the whole subscriber table in
> the
> > database...
>
> Well, you're making the assumption that no one would want these e-mails,
> which I very much doubt is valid. As a general rule, if someone doesn't
> want
> to be notified of changes to bugzilla issues that they reported or
> commented
> on, they can unsubscribe from them. And sure, this is potentially a lot of
> e-mails this time around, since all of the open bugs are being affected at
> once, but it's only going to be once, and it tells you something about
> which
> open issues you're currently subscribed to, which some people are going to
> be interested in.
>
> So, while I do think that it's perfectly understandable if you didn't want any of these e-mails, I don't agree that it would have been a good idea to simply not send them out to anyone.
>
> Though personally, now I have to go and figure out how I'm going to have to
> rework my filters to deal with the fact that we're going to now be using
> github issues instead. I don't even know what I'm going to be get e-mailed
> by default, and it wouldn't surprise me if I end up missing some stuff
> until
> I get all of that sorted out. But such is life, I suppose.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
I received several hundred emails, and then had to spend ages deleting them
all... I couldn't select-all because they spanned like 10 pages, and I had
to de-select the real emails interleaved among them.
I'm gonna go way out there on the limb and say, I am completely confident
that nobody wants that.
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