Well, French is first my language, so we are in the ESL boat together ;-) I
am glad we can converse in a shared language, and it does not have to be
Latin or esperanto!

Gary

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 10:13 Peter Lee <peter...@apache.org> wrote:

> It's why apache and open source is so charming and why we all love this so
> much. :-)
>
> cheers,
> Lee
>
> On 7 26 2020, at 10:04 , Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Jul 26, 2020, at 9:53 AM, Peter Lee <peter...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Stefan, Rob, Gilles, Gary and all,
> > >
> > > Please calm.
> > > I was just talking that I'm so busy recently ( Too busy in the daytime
> that I got home after 12p.m. these days :( ) .I didn't check my mailbox
> after my last replay in this thread. Really sorry for my late reply.
> > > I'm not complaining. I personally like the dependency bot but I'm just
> not familiar with it yet.
> > > English is not my first language so I may misused some words. I'm
> sorry if I used some words that are not proper enough.
> >
> > You don’t have to apologize! There are a considerable number of folks on
> the list whose second language is English. We’re happy to have everyone
> chime in. It makes us a stronger community. :-)
> > -Rob
> > > Sincely,
> > > Lee
> > >
> > >> On 7 24 2020, at 5:47, Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Hi Stefan and all.
> > >>
> > >> 2020-07-24 8:35 UTC+02:00, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>:
> > >>>> On 2020-07-24, Rob Tompkins wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>>> On Jul 23, 2020, at 10:16 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>> Also, how different is a bot proposing a dependency update from a
> human
> > >>>>> doing the same? The bot includes far more context about the update
> in
> > >>>>> the
> > >>>>> PR comment, too, which is super useful for determining whether or
> not
> > >>>>> the
> > >>>>> dependency is worth updating. You can even configure it to only
> notify
> > >>>>> about security updates if it’s too noisy.
> > >>>
> > >>>> I don’t understand how substantive forward progress on a project
> can be
> > >>>> considered noisy. It’s just audit.
> > >>>
> > >>> Oh my, please calm down.
> > >>
> > >> I didn't "feel" that any of the posts in this thread had an
> > >> angry tone, not any more than mine at the beginning of
> > >> the other thread.
> > >>
> > >> Peter's remark, as yours, as mine, makes 3 people asking a
> > >> simple question about an as yet unknown source of emails
> > >> (that could therefore be qualified as "unsolicited").
> > >>
> > >> Perhaps the three of us needed that _prior_ discussion on
> > >> "dev@" (i.e. present the proposal) rather than an after the
> > >> fact terse statement akin to "go figure yourself".
> > >>
> > >> Perhaps we needed just that extra little time of a "human"
> > >> conversation to be convinced and not even blink at the
> > >> subsequent automated emails.
> > >>
> > >> So a list of "bot" statements (in MD format) is now a good
> > >> enough substitute for that "conversation" (?).
> > >>
> > >> That's the kind of "progress" which GitHub brings (along
> > >> with truly good things, I don't doubt, but which are not
> > >> what is being pointed at).
> > >>
> > >>> Peter just said he hasn't been reading mails for a few days, is
> > >>> overwhelmed now and will need time to review what has happened. He
> > >>> didn't complain, he was apologizing for not responding immediately -
> > >>> which he shouldn't feel was necessary IMHO.
> > >>
> > >> Certainly not he.
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Gilles
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> Stefan
> > >>
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