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

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.

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...

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 <
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> 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