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[Aaron Bentley]

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Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>> 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.”

Well, he's just telling something I already know.

>> 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.

If BB believes that a patch is supposed to land on Bazaar, I believe
that it should always tell us about it.  If it's correct, then we need
to review it.  If it's not correct, then someone needs to reassign it.
It's hard for BB to know whether or not BB's assignment is correct, so
it will have to be us that reassign it.

> 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

That's true, but I don't think that's fixable.  Clicking on the link is
not a tremendous burden.

> (especially as BB doesn't tell me where it
> found the mail

In one sense, it found the email in /home/abentley/BundleBuggy/mail_queue

But I could record the probable mailing list, by analysing the headers,
in many cases.

> so it's hard to know which project it is meant to belong to).
> Basically, the surprise and irritation outweighs the value, I think.

I think once the assignment of patches to the correct project is fixed,
the amount of surprise and irritation will go way down.

Aaron
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