Re: Lilypond and distribution bugtrackers [was: LSR is not at the stable release level]

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 10/05/2012 12:02 AM, Graham Percival wrote:
> That's your opinion.  My opinion is that it would *not* be useful
> to receive automatic notifications, since most automatic
> notifications from distro bugs are useless for us.

Fair enough.

I'm sorry if my earlier emails came across as dismissive of this or any other 
practical concerns -- not to mention the work of the bug squad.  It's really not 
my intention to try and throw extra work at anyone.

> The bug square is responsible for responding to *all* emails to
> bug-lilypond.  We keep statistics on whether they fulfill that
> responsibility or not.

OK, understood -- bug-lilypond itself is clearly not the right channel via which 
to transmit this kind of material directly.

> But we *want* a bottleneck for that information.  I don't want to
> wade through 95% useless messages in order to see the useful 5%.
> Given our extremely limited resources for bug handling (resources
> which you are not offering to contribute!), I consider losing that
> 5% to be quite acceptable.

I'd distinguish between a filter and a bottleneck.  Of course you want a filter 
-- but I don't see it as useful to put in place a system that blocks information 
getting to you unless somebody actually acts.

> How's this: if you work on the bug squad for 6 months and still
> think that this is a worthwhile project, then we'll talk about it
> again.

Perfectly fair.  Let's do it. :-)