On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 1:30 AM Sam James via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > This came out of some discussion with Arsen and prompted by some other > comments on IRC. > > At the moment, during release time, maintainer-scripts/branch_changer.py > is run by release managers and causes a large amount of bugmail to be > sent both to CCs/assignees but also to the gcc-bugs ML. The activity > comes from the RM's personal account. In the past, I've missed real > activity on bugs (including a question to me) as well as some other > email drowned out in the notification emails. > > What do people think about possibly having a special 'GCC releases' > account which only the RMs have an API key to, possibly suppresses > sending email to begin with, and is ignored by gcc-bugs? It would allow > easier filtering out of the mail. > > (I'm familiar enough with BZ to say it should be trivially doable, with > the exception of suppressing *sending* the mail to begin with, which I'd > have to investigate.)
I think it would be better to suppress e-mails for these updates - I'm not sure that's easily doable though. In theory using a (or one for each RM) special bugzilla account is possible of course. Richard. > > thanks, > sam
