A modest proposal

[Brad Anderson]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>wrote:

> On Monday, January 23, 2012 18:57:16 Brad Anderson wrote:
> > Recently there has been explosion in bug closures.  This has had the
> > unfortunate side effect of making it difficult to have a conversation in
> #d
> > IRC with the bot constantly announcing these changes.  I humbly request
> > that those responsible slow down this behavior to a more tolerable level
> so
> > we can talk uninterrupted in the #d IRC channel.  I hate to call out
> > someone by name but Walter in particular has been completely out of line
> > with the volume of notifications he's been generating recently.
> >
> > I understand some people like bug closures and who am I to judge but
> there
> > is a limit to what some of us can tolerate and it has been surpassed.
> >
> > I'm sorry it had to come to this.
>
> Actually, I'd like to thank Walter for taking the time to go through the
> bugs
> like this. It's long overdue. It's time consuming and not fun to do, but it
> sorely needs to be done - and much of it needs to be done by Walter, since
> his
> input is required on much of it.
>
> I understand that this may be frustrating to those in IRC, but it's a
> temporary thing which will greatly improve the overall situation with
> bugzilla. And then it'll probably be back to the status quo with regards to
> how many messages you're seeing in IRC.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>

Jonathan, Swiftly closing them is causing real pain for some of us.
 Certainly he could fix them and keep a log of the ones he fixed then
actually close, say, 3 a day on bugzilla so it wouldn't be so noisy.

Couldn't resist,
Brad Anderson
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