On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com>wrote:
> On Monday, January 23, 2012 18:57:16 Brad Anderson 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. > > Actually, I'd like to thank Walter for taking the time to go through the > bugs > like this. It's long overdue. It's time consuming and not fun to do, but it > sorely needs to be done - and much of it needs to be done by Walter, since > his > input is required on much of it. > > I understand that this may be frustrating to those in IRC, but it's a > temporary thing which will greatly improve the overall situation with > bugzilla. And then it'll probably be back to the status quo with regards to > how many messages you're seeing in IRC. > > - Jonathan M Davis > 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. Couldn't resist, Brad Anderson