On 15/09/2013 15:25, Rob Weir wrote: > When it became clear that our BZ instance was sending out a huge > number of notifications I disabled email notifications from within the > BZ admin UI. > > I'd like to coordinate with someone in Infra on turning this back on. > Why? Because it is not clear to me whether there are even more pent > up notifications that would be sent once we enable notifications > again. I don't know how BZ works internally enough to be certain. > > A few possibilities: > > 1) Someone who knows more about BZ than I do checks our database or > filesystem to see if there is a pending queue of unsent notifications, > and gives us a go-ahead if it looks clear.
I'll take a look and re-enable notifications once I am happy that it is safe to do so. I'll note that if a need arises in the future to make mass changes to Bugzilla issues then it is far safe to make them in the database and send a note to the relevant dev list(s) detailing the change. Mark > 2) We meet up on IRC and Infra carefully monitors the mail queues as > we re-enable BZ notifications, so we have the ability to immediately > shut it off if there is a surge. > > 3) Temporarily direct our BZ mails to a different mail queue until we > are certain it is not misbehaving. > > This might all be unnecessary. It is possible that the notifications > from BZ were all sent before I shut it down. But I rather be a little > cautious than cause another ASF-wide mail problem. > > Regards, > > -Rob > >> I additionally tried to modify my E-Mail-Adress, but I did not get a >> message, neither to old address nor to new one. >> >> As a makeshift I created a feed so that I will be informed concerning any >> new changes in "my" bugs, but that proceeding is painful. >> >> Best regards >> >> Rainer Bielefeld --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
