Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Chris Withers

Please can you do something to stop it?
Kill the MTA or something?

This is ridiculous...

Chris

On 04/06/2013 06:46, Donald Stufft wrote:

Just want to apologize to anyone who recently received a lot of mail
from me.

I realized shortly after I queued all the emails that they should have
been grouped by user and not by package.

So, I'm sorry. I really am and I feel bad about the amount of mail some
of you have received from me.

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz

On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

 Please can you do something to stop it?
 Kill the MTA or something?
 
 This is ridiculous…

As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand your 
annoyance, but just make a filter for don...@python.org for the day or 
something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so asking us 
to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin again) is 
unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, I welcome 
progress with open arms.

--Noah



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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Chris Withers

On 04/06/2013 07:33, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:


On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Chris Withers wrote:


Please can you do something to stop it?
Kill the MTA or something?

This is ridiculous…


As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand your 
annoyance, but just make a filter for don...@python.org for the day or 
something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so asking us 
to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin again) is 
unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, I welcome 
progress with open arms.


Are you not concerned that various bits of python.org involved in this 
process are going to start getting hit by RBLs and other spam filtering 
that will cause problems down the line as a result of all this noise?


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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Donald Stufft

On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:37 AM, Chris Withers ch...@python.org wrote:

 On 04/06/2013 07:33, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
 
 On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
 
 Please can you do something to stop it?
 Kill the MTA or something?
 
 This is ridiculous…
 
 As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand 
 your annoyance, but just make a filter for don...@python.org for the day or 
 something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so asking 
 us to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin again) is 
 unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, I welcome 
 progress with open arms.
 
 Are you not concerned that various bits of python.org involved in this 
 process are going to start getting hit by RBLs and other spam filtering that 
 will cause problems down the line as a result of all this noise?
 
 Chris
 
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Honestly at this point if anything like that happens the damage is likely 
already done. The vast bulk of them have already been sent. Starting over now 
would be more emails than letting them finish.

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz

On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

 On 04/06/2013 07:33, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
 
 On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
 
 Please can you do something to stop it?
 Kill the MTA or something?
 
 This is ridiculous…
 
 As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand 
 your annoyance, but just make a filter for don...@python.org for the day or 
 something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so asking 
 us to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin again) is 
 unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, I welcome 
 progress with open arms.
 
 Are you not concerned that various bits of python.org involved in this 
 process are going to start getting hit by RBLs and other spam filtering that 
 will cause problems down the line as a result of all this noise?

No, because only a very small number of people are going to be getting more 
than a handful of these, and any user with 50+ packages is hopefully enough of 
a power-user to not fly off the handle.

--Noah



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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Donald Stufft

On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:45 AM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote:
 Just want to apologize to anyone who recently received a lot of mail from
 me.
 
 I realized shortly after I queued all the emails that they should have been
 grouped by user and not by package.
 
 I like it this way. Now I can easily reply and include the other
 owners in the discussion. :-)
 
 But on the other hand, I really only need two discussions, one for
 zope.* and one for plone.*
 
 All the packages that I am truly a maintainer for I changed the first
 day the feature was available, I don't seem to get emails about those.
 So there. :-)
 
 //Lennart


I *was* smart enough to make sure it only emailed for packages that it actually 
needed too.

Just not smart enough not to send people one per package :/

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Donald Stufft

On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Vincent Pelletier vinc...@nexedi.com wrote:

 As to the technical change: how can this be set when uploading a package for 
 the first time ?
 Specifically, is there a control knob available to setup.py 
 (setuptools/distutils/whatever, I'm pretty much lost between the alternatives 
 and usually just cargo-cult when creating a new setup.py) ?
 If not, what is/will be the default setting ? (I guess #3 for one month, then 
 #1 maybe ?)
 
 Regards,
 -- 
 Vincent Pelletier
 
 
 This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
 

The default option for all new packages since introduced a week or two ago has 
been #1.

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote:
 Just want to apologize to anyone who recently received a lot of mail from
 me.

 I realized shortly after I queued all the emails that they should have been
 grouped by user and not by package.

I like it this way. Now I can easily reply and include the other
owners in the discussion. :-)

But on the other hand, I really only need two discussions, one for
zope.* and one for plone.*

All the packages that I am truly a maintainer for I changed the first
day the feature was available, I don't seem to get emails about those.
So there. :-)

//Lennart
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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Donald Stufft

On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Vincent Pelletier vinc...@nexedi.com wrote:

 As to the technical change: how can this be set when uploading a package for 
 the first time ?
 Specifically, is there a control knob available to setup.py 
 (setuptools/distutils/whatever, I'm pretty much lost between the alternatives 
 and usually just cargo-cult when creating a new setup.py) ?
 If not, what is/will be the default setting ? (I guess #3 for one month, then 
 #1 maybe ?)
 
 Regards,
 -- 
 Vincent Pelletier
 
 
 This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
 

And to answer your other question there's nothing in setup.py to control it. 
For new packages it defaults to strict and allows folks to, if they really want 
to, expand it.

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Chris Withers

On 04/06/2013 07:45, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:



As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand your 
annoyance, but just make a filter for don...@python.org for the day or 
something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so asking us 
to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin again) is 
unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, I welcome 
progress with open arms.


Are you not concerned that various bits of python.org involved in this process 
are going to start getting hit by RBLs and other spam filtering that will cause 
problems down the line as a result of all this noise?


No, because only a very small number of people are going to be getting more 
than a handful of these, and any user with 50+ packages is hopefully enough of 
a power-user to not fly off the handle.


That's not what I'm referring to; how much mail has actually been sent?

MTAs end up being blacklisted automatically by ISPs and RBLs if they 
heuristically look like they're spewing spam. It's what companies like 
MailChimp and co spend their lives working around.


Chris

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz

On Jun 4, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

 On 04/06/2013 07:45, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
 
 As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand 
 your annoyance, but just make a filter for don...@python.org for the day 
 or something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so 
 asking us to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin 
 again) is unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, 
 I welcome progress with open arms.
 
 Are you not concerned that various bits of python.org involved in this 
 process are going to start getting hit by RBLs and other spam filtering 
 that will cause problems down the line as a result of all this noise?
 
 No, because only a very small number of people are going to be getting more 
 than a handful of these, and any user with 50+ packages is hopefully enough 
 of a power-user to not fly off the handle.
 
 That's not what I'm referring to; how much mail has actually been sent?
 
 MTAs end up being blacklisted automatically by ISPs and RBLs if they 
 heuristically look like they're spewing spam. It's what companies like 
 MailChimp and co spend their lives working around.

Thanks to running many very very large mailing lists, I can promise you another 
few thousand messages exiting our servers is a non-issue.

--Noah



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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Chris Withers

On 04/06/2013 08:16, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:



MTAs end up being blacklisted automatically by ISPs and RBLs if they 
heuristically look like they're spewing spam. It's what companies like 
MailChimp and co spend their lives working around.


Thanks to running many very very large mailing lists, I can promise you another 
few thousand messages exiting our servers is a non-issue.


This isn't a mailing list, this is a process sending out mails.

I've recently seen something very similar start getting RBL errors from 
msn after only a hundred or so emails sent.


Anyway, let's just hope...

Chris

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz

On Jun 4, 2013, at 12:21 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

 On 04/06/2013 08:16, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
 
 MTAs end up being blacklisted automatically by ISPs and RBLs if they 
 heuristically look like they're spewing spam. It's what companies like 
 MailChimp and co spend their lives working around.
 
 Thanks to running many very very large mailing lists, I can promise you 
 another few thousand messages exiting our servers is a non-issue.
 
 This isn't a mailing list, this is a process sending out mails.
 
 I've recently seen something very similar start getting RBL errors from msn 
 after only a hundred or so emails sent.
 
 Anyway, let's just hope…

Its all the same, these emails are relaying via mail.python.org.

--Noah




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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:49:58AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
 I *was* smart enough to make sure it only emailed for packages that it
 actually needed too.
 
 Just not smart enough not to send people one per package :/

Heh, for some packages I actually got two emails.

I'm guessing I'm listed twice in the roles table.  Stephan Richter had
a script that granted access to all of zope.* to somebody; perhaps I
was manually to a couple of packages before that script ran.  Or
something.  PyPI could use something like GitHub organization accounts.

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Donald Stufft

On Jun 4, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote:

 On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:49:58AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
 I *was* smart enough to make sure it only emailed for packages that it
 actually needed too.
 
 Just not smart enough not to send people one per package :/
 
 Heh, for some packages I actually got two emails.
 
 I'm guessing I'm listed twice in the roles table.  Stephan Richter had
 a script that granted access to all of zope.* to somebody; perhaps I
 was manually to a couple of packages before that script ran.  Or
 something.  PyPI could use something like GitHub organization accounts.
 
 Marius Gedminas
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Organization accounts are something I want to add in the future.

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread holger krekel
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 07:26 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
 On Jun 4, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote:
 
  On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:49:58AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
  I *was* smart enough to make sure it only emailed for packages that it
  actually needed too.
  
  Just not smart enough not to send people one per package :/
  
  Heh, for some packages I actually got two emails.
  
  I'm guessing I'm listed twice in the roles table.  Stephan Richter had
  a script that granted access to all of zope.* to somebody; perhaps I
  was manually to a couple of packages before that script ran.  Or
  something.  PyPI could use something like GitHub organization accounts.
  
  Marius Gedminas
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  language
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 Organization accounts are something I want to add in the future.

FYI the upcoming (this week) devpi-server release will have
organisational github-style accounts.

best,
holger

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Jim Fulton
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote:
 Just want to apologize to anyone who recently received a lot of mail from
 me.

 I realized shortly after I queued all the emails that they should have been
 grouped by user and not by package.

 So, I'm sorry. I really am and I feel bad about the amount of mail some of
 you have received from me.

This is a minor annoyance.  If someone is worked up about this, they aren't
using the right email client, or don't know how to use it.  I was able
to deal with
these  messages in a few seconds.

Much thanks for all your packaging efforts. I really appreciate it.

Jim

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Tres Seaver
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On 06/04/2013 01:46 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
 Just want to apologize to anyone who recently received a lot of mail 
 from me.
 
 I realized shortly after I queued all the emails that they should
 have been grouped by user and not by package.
 
 So, I'm sorry. I really am and I feel bad about the amount of mail
 some of you have received from me.

I don't mind the 250 or so messages, but I'd *really* like to get a bulk
change UI to set all 250 to #1 at once -- there is no way I'm going to
take the time to clickety-click through them and fix them by hand.
Without such a UI, I guess I'm just going to wait for the auto-conversion.


Tres.
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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Donald Stufft

On Jun 4, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote:

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 On 06/04/2013 01:46 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
  Just want to apologize to anyone who recently received a lot of mail 
  from me.
  
  I realized shortly after I queued all the emails that they should
  have been grouped by user and not by package.
  
  So, I'm sorry. I really am and I feel bad about the amount of mail
  some of you have received from me.
 
 I don't mind the 250 or so messages, but I'd *really* like to get a bulk
 change UI to set all 250 to #1 at once -- there is no way I'm going to
 take the time to clickety-click through them and fix them by hand.
 Without such a UI, I guess I'm just going to wait for the auto-conversion.
 
 
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I'll see what I can whip up. Would a script be ok?

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Re: [Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-04 Thread Tres Seaver
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On 06/04/2013 11:13 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
 I'll see what I can whip up. Would a script be ok?

Sure -- I'm fine with whatever works.  Thanks!


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[Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

2013-06-03 Thread Donald Stufft
Just want to apologize to anyone who recently received a lot of mail from me.

I realized shortly after I queued all the emails that they should have been 
grouped by user and not by package.

So, I'm sorry. I really am and I feel bad about the amount of mail some of you 
have received from me.

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