Hello fellow humans,
this is a brief headsup about my current inability to communicate
through the official channel bugs.gentoo.org because of what seems like
a ComRel[1] action[2] suspending my account. If you have important
information to share on the many hundreds of packages I maintain, do
not hesitate to use my e-mail address directly or approach me on IRC
(Freenode or OFTC).
Kind regards,
jer
[1] I.e. the people purportedly responsible for ensuring proper
communications between members of the Gentoo Linux community.
[2]
https://rooversj.home.xs4all.nl/gentoo/2018-06-07-204422_1920x1080_scrot.png
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 22:39:22 +0200
From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org>
To: Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org>
Cc: bugzi...@gentoo.org, com...@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: "Please let's talk if spamming everyone pointlessly is
really needed."
Am Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2018, 20:51:30 CEST schrieb Jeroen Roovers:
> What's going on here?
>
> "Please let's talk if spamming everyone pointlessly is really needed."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> If your mind is made up about the point of mass
> changes, then why bother enquiring about it? I would think infra@
> takes such actions to protect the services, not to argue about the
> merits of changes.
This wasn't infra, this was me. Following a complaint on #g-comrel, I
checked the bug backlog and saw that you changed (likely much) more
than 50 bugs in a very short time. On a quick glance the changes were
against longstanding policy.
Thank you for getting back.
* If you see the necessity to change a long-standing guideline,
* and if that involves a lot of people getting a lot of non-informative
bugmail ("spam"),
I would be very grateful if you could
* inform the community about the policy change on the mailing lists,
* and coordinate with Infra so the mails are suppressed somehow.
Thank you. I will happily re-activate your account if you agree to
this, otherwise I'll defer a decision on that to the rest of comrel and
a vote.
> For my part, I was doing what I have been doing for more than a
> decade.
That is part of the problem.
--
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfri...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)
