On 08/06/2013 11:46 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> 23:37:25 <willikins> rej, you have notes! [21:13] <mrueg> Let me
> rephrase this: Just a friendly notice to please refrain from rephrasing
> bug summaries from "Stabilize ${P}" to "${P} stable req". This just
> adds unneeded noise to the bug. I don't want this on bugs I've reported
> or am assigned to.
>
>
> This is my equally short and "friendly" note: It's not going to happen.
> Forget about it. They are not "your" bug reports and anyone is
> actually /welcome/ to improve them. Get used to it.
>
> To get technical on the "improvement" bit, we have agreed time on time
> that stating the atom and then the action is the way to go. The main
> reasons is that it helps people who need to regularly read /lists/ of
> bug summaries sort them better. Until we get a specific [Atoms] field
> implemented, it will need to stay this way.
>
> Besides the finer technical points of bug maintenance, it simply
> infuriates me that anyone would think of bug reports in the possessive.
> This is not the way to improve the distro. You're on the wrong track
> there. And you weren't being friendly.
>
>
I don't see any issue here. You are a bug wrangler and should have the
authority to mess with anything in bugzilla.
However, if you have scripts that rely on such specific form of bug
title, then they are broken.
If you have issues to sort/read use a proper mail client with filtering
options.
On 08/07/2013 11:04 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> However, I'm also sick of getting bugmail because $RANDOM_DEV thinks
> * TRACKER is better than Tracker,
> * every atom needs a "=" in front, and
> * "Please stabilize XXX" should always be replaced by "XXX stabilization".
>
> Remeber, I've been talking about effective whitespace noise.
>
And here too: How you set up your mail client is your own problem.
Seems people are more interested in bikesheddings threads than those
that point out problems no one has addressed in years.
