On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:52:27 -0700
Brad Anderson <eco@gnuk.net> wrote:

> Jonathan, Swiftly closing them is causing real pain for some of us.
>  Certainly he could fix them and keep a log of the ones he fixed then
> actually close, say, 3 a day on bugzilla so it wouldn't be so noisy.

My suggestion is that Walter & co. should write a simple app which would parse IRC logs in the past few years and anaylize what are the critical hours in the channel when there is traffic peak and then to adjust their time of closing bugs appropriately.

Maybe, some pre-message could be generated by bot to warn in advance all the IRC users that "we expect that in 5minutes the channel will be bombed by the flood of closing bug reports, so it's a good time to make a short break (toilet, snack, light drink...)".

Of course we know that without introducing penalty fees for those who break the rule, nothing can really happen...


Sincerely,
Gour

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Am 24.01.2012, 05:00 Uhr, schrieb Bernard Helyer <b.helyer@gmail.com>:

> On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 03:52:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Bernard Helyer" <b.helyer@gmail.com> wrote in message news:zqqqybjeqepidctwzvjm@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
>>> On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 03:01:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>>> On Monday, January 23, 2012 19:52:27 Brad Anderson wrote:
>>>>> Jonathan, Swiftly closing them is causing real pain for some of us.
>>>>> Certainly he could fix them and keep a log of the ones he fixed then
>>>>> actually close, say, 3 a day on bugzilla so it wouldn't be so noisy.
>>>>
>>>> Considering that what's doing is primarily focused on commenting and potentially closing bugs, not necessarily fixing them, it wouldn't make any sense to keep track of it himself and then go back later to actually comment on them and potentially close them. It would be the same as slowing down what he's doing over a much longer period. And 3 a day would be insanely slow in comparison to what he's actually doing. I'm sure that it's much more effective for him to just do it all now and move on.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry, but you're just going to have to deal with it. It won't last long, and it needs to be done.
>>>>
>>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>>
>>> FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GOOGLE A MODERATE PROPOSAL I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE WHY ARE YOU ALL GERMAN OR SOMETHING OH GOD
>>>
>>
>> Walter already made reference to baby-eating.
>
> I was referring to Jonathan's seeming inability to get the joke. :P

Coincidence: I'm German and didn't get the joke. Sauerkraut anyone?

On 24 January 2012 12:24, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 24.01.2012, 05:00 Uhr, schrieb Bernard Helyer <b.helyer@gmail.com>:
>
>
>> On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 03:52:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>
>>> "Bernard Helyer" <b.helyer@gmail.com> wrote in message news:zqqqybjeqepidctwzvjm@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 03:01:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, January 23, 2012 19:52:27 Brad Anderson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jonathan, Swiftly closing them is causing real pain for some of us. Certainly he could fix them and keep a log of the ones he fixed then actually close, say, 3 a day on bugzilla so it wouldn't be so noisy.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Considering that what's doing is primarily focused on commenting and potentially closing bugs, not necessarily fixing them, it wouldn't make any sense to keep track of it himself and then go back later to actually comment on them and potentially close them. It would be the same as slowing down what he's doing over a much longer period. And 3 a day would be insanely slow in comparison to what he's actually doing. I'm sure that it's much more effective for him to just do it all now and move on.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sorry, but you're just going to have to deal with it. It won't last long, and it needs to be done.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GOOGLE A MODERATE PROPOSAL I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE WHY ARE YOU ALL GERMAN OR SOMETHING OH GOD
>>>>
>>>
>>> Walter already made reference to baby-eating.
>>
>>
>> I was referring to Jonathan's seeming inability to get the joke. :P
>
>
> Coincidence: I'm German and didn't get the joke. Sauerkraut anyone?

I thought it was Danes who were into their dead baby jokes... or maybe it's just my friends. ;-)

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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:00:11 -0500, Bernard Helyer <b.helyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 03:52:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Bernard Helyer" <b.helyer@gmail.com> wrote in message news:zqqqybjeqepidctwzvjm@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
>>> On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 03:01:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>>> On Monday, January 23, 2012 19:52:27 Brad Anderson wrote:
>>>>> Jonathan, Swiftly closing them is causing real pain for some of us.
>>>>> Certainly he could fix them and keep a log of the ones he fixed then
>>>>> actually close, say, 3 a day on bugzilla so it wouldn't be so noisy.
>>>>
>>>> Considering that what's doing is primarily focused on commenting and potentially closing bugs, not necessarily fixing them, it wouldn't make any sense to keep track of it himself and then go back later to actually comment on them and potentially close them. It would be the same as slowing down what he's doing over a much longer period. And 3 a day would be insanely slow in comparison to what he's actually doing. I'm sure that it's much more effective for him to just do it all now and move on.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry, but you're just going to have to deal with it. It won't last long, and it needs to be done.
>>>>
>>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>>
>>> FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GOOGLE A MODERATE PROPOSAL I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE WHY ARE YOU ALL GERMAN OR SOMETHING OH GOD
>>>
>>
>> Walter already made reference to baby-eating.
>
> I was referring to Jonathan's seeming inability to get the joke. :P

If you don't know the reference, you won't get it.  It's that simple.  You need a reference.

It's like referencing a movie that you haven't seen.  What is the point of explaining it unless you have seen the movie, you won't get it.

And I have to admit, I didn't have any idea what he was talking about until I read later about googling for it, and learned what it meant.

You don't even have your reference right :)  It's a *Modest* proposal.

-Steve

On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 18:45:12 Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> If you don't know the reference, you won't get it. It's that simple. You need a reference.
> 
> It's like referencing a movie that you haven't seen. What is the point of explaining it unless you have seen the movie, you won't get it.
> 
> And I have to admit, I didn't have any idea what he was talking about until I read later about googling for it, and learned what it meant.
> 
> You don't even have your reference right :) It's a *Modest* proposal.

I'd heard of the paper in question years ago but had long forgotten about it. I certainly wouldn't have remembered the title or who wrote it.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Brad Anderson <eco@gnuk.net> wrote:

> Recently there has been explosion in bug closures.  This has had the unfortunate side effect of making it difficult to have a conversation in #d IRC with the bot constantly announcing these changes.  I humbly request that those responsible slow down this behavior to a more tolerable level so we can talk uninterrupted in the #d IRC channel.  I hate to call out someone by name but Walter in particular has been completely out of line with the volume of notifications he's been generating recently.
>
> I understand some people like bug closures and who am I to judge but there is a limit to what some of us can tolerate and it has been surpassed.
>
> I'm sorry it had to come to this.
>
> Regards,
> Brad Anderson
>

Walter toned it down somewhat and for that I'm grateful but Daniel Murphy has stepped it up.  Just look at what we have to deal with: http://i.imgur.com/eGTH8.png . Terrible.

Regards,
Brad Anderson

"Brad Anderson" <eco@gnuk.net> wrote in message news:mailman.228.1328074398.25230.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com...
>
>
> Walter toned it down somewhat and for that I'm grateful but Daniel Murphy has stepped it up.  Just look at what we have to deal with: http://i.imgur.com/eGTH8.png . Terrible.
>
> Regards,
> Brad Anderson

"Brad Anderson" <eco@gnuk.net> wrote in message news:mailman.228.1328074398.25230.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com...

>
> Walter toned it down somewhat and for that I'm grateful but Daniel Murphy has stepped it up.  Just look at what we have to deal with: http://i.imgur.com/eGTH8.png . Terrible.
>
>
> Regards,
> Brad Anderson

Freaking shift+enter.

=D

One pass through the accepts-invalid list resulting in 30 bugs closed and 12 patches!