Bugzilla Issue migration to github (phobos)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, December 1, 2024 10:27:29 PM MST Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce 
wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 at 13:41, Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce <
>
> digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
> > On Monday, 2 December 2024 at 02:13:52 UTC, Manu wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 at 05:40, Robert Schadek via
> > > Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >> Earlier today I migrated the phobos' bugzilla issues from
> > >> bugzilla to github https://github.com/dlang/phobos/issues
> > >>
> > >> Next I'll move druntime and dmd (this year).
> > >>
> > >> Sorry to taking so long.
> > >
> > > Cool story; I particularly loved the ~1000 emails I received
> > > overnight that I had to sift through the delete :P
> >
> > Then you'll love the waaaay more you'll get from the dmd/druntime
> > one.
> >
> > This is what email routing rules are for.
>
> Yeah, nar... I kinda reckon you need to find as way to suppress mailing out
> thousands of spam emails to every subscriber to the big database before
> clicking the go button? Maybe blanket-unsubscribe everyone from the old
> issue tracker before migrating? Just drop the whole subscriber table in the
> database...

Well, you're making the assumption that no one would want these e-mails,
which I very much doubt is valid. As a general rule, if someone doesn't want
to be notified of changes to bugzilla issues that they reported or commented
on, they can unsubscribe from them. And sure, this is potentially a lot of
e-mails this time around, since all of the open bugs are being affected at
once, but it's only going to be once, and it tells you something about which
open issues you're currently subscribed to, which some people are going to
be interested in.

So, while I do think that it's perfectly understandable if you didn't want
any of these e-mails, I don't agree that it would have been a good idea to
simply not send them out to anyone.

Though personally, now I have to go and figure out how I'm going to have to
rework my filters to deal with the fact that we're going to now be using
github issues instead. I don't even know what I'm going to be get e-mailed
by default, and it wouldn't surprise me if I end up missing some stuff until
I get all of that sorted out. But such is life, I suppose.

- Jonathan M Davis