On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 at 16:06, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce < [email protected]> 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 < > > > > [email protected]> 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 < [email protected]> > > > > > > > > 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.
