do you know enough about what (other) Bazaar developers are doing?

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "aaron" == Aaron Bentley <aaron at aaronbentley.com> writes:

    aaron> Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
    >>>>>>> "aaron" == Aaron Bentley <aaron at aaronbentley.com> writes:
    >> 
    >> <snip/>
    >> 
    aaron> 2. "Bundle Buggy acknowledges this patch" messages are
    aaron> mostly noise.  The only reason I do 'em is to provide
    aaron> the link.  Perhaps BB could accept the messages
    aaron> directly, append the URL in a footer, and then forward
    aaron> to the list?
    >> 
    >> I strongly prefer the way it works now and for once "Just Hit
    >> Delete" seems appropriate.

    aaron> I didn't mean to suggest that BB would stop reading
    aaron> the list for incoming mail.  I meant that sending mail
    aaron> directly to BB would be an alternate mechanism.

I forgot replying-mode rule #1: always read all mails. I had
around 2500 unread mails when I wrote that reply.

    >> Automating all corrections or suggestions we, as
    >> humans, can make to correct these submissions will never be made
    >> automatically.

    aaron> Sorry, I don't follow this.

Same remark. I wasn't aware of all the "spam" generated by BB for
a lot of reasons (not throwing stones here ! Just trying to be
concise).

What I was trying to say was:

- I think BB main purpose is to track *well-formed* submissions
  sent to the right email,

- I doubt BB will ever be able to do the Right Thing with
  incorrect submissions and for that I think humans should be
  relied upon (forgotten patches, wrong subject line, wrong ML,
  wrong public branch, etc).

Now, having read a bit more mails, I may be wrong on the last
point and you may well be far closer than I thought about BB
being able to handle the incorrect submissions.

      Vincent

P.S.: I seem to remember that you use procmail to filter mails
targeted at BB into a *single* mailbox. May be using one mailbox
by project may help in some cases (but may fail if the same ML is
used for several projects though...).

P.P.S.: Anyway, congrats for your constant efforts in improving
BB, since bazaar was the first project to use it, I understand
that we (bazaar ML subscribers) have to support some bugs while
BB is targeted at more projects.