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[Andrew Bennetts]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
[...]
> >>>>
> >>> Aaron, this one is also not for Bazaar itself.
> >> Why are you telling me this?  You can assign it to the correct project
> >> as easily as I can.
> > 
> > I assume because the original mail with the patch never went to the bazaar@
> > list, and there was nothing in the patch saying that it was related to Bazaar,
> > so it looks like a Bundle Buggy bug to me.
> 
> If he'd like to make a constructive suggestion, that's one thing.
> Telling me "this is also not for Bazaar itself" isn't a constructive
> suggestion.  It's just "Haha, you suck!"

I think you're reading too much into it.  I just saw it as “here's another
example of buggy behaviour, I hope this helps you fix the cause.”

> > Perhaps plain patches (rather than
> > merge directives) are always being assigned by default to Bazaar, rather than to
> > the project corresponding to the mailing list where BB first saw it?
> 
> That's true, and it's a bug I'd like to fix.  There's only one of me,
> though, and a lot of my productive time is being taken up by this
> Launchpad-bazaar sprint I'm at in New Zealand.
> 
> Of course, this is not a perfect approach.  It won't work for projects
> that don't have their own mailing lists. (pqm, bzr-stats, bzrtools,
> trac-bzr).

*nod*

If projects that share a mailing list, then this is bound to happen from time to
time.  But at least in that case people following the mailing list saw the
original mail and know what's going on.

[...]
> > but I don't think bazaar@ should be receiving
> > email about patches sent to other mailing lists in the first place.
> 
> It think the Bazaar ML should receive email about any patches that are
> assigned to the Bazaar project, whether erroneously or not.  The trick
> is to reduce the number of erroneous assignments.

Well, if a patch gets reassigned explicitly, then sure we should get email about
it.  But I don't think BB should by default ever be pestering bazaar@ with
replies for mail that was addressed to another list.  After all, readers of
bazaar@ never saw the original mail, which makes it hard to know what to do
about the BB request at a glance (especially as BB doesn't tell me where it
found the mail, so it's hard to know which project it is meant to belong to).
Basically, the surprise and irritation outweighs the value, I think.

-Andrew.