On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:35:49AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:16:41 -0400
"Clyde E. Kunkel" <clydekunkel7734(a)cox.net> wrote:
> On 10/31/2010 03:18 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Okay, feedback time.
> >
> > Lately, there have been several attempts at urging proventesters
> > (and not just testers in general) to give positive karma for aging
> > critpath updates. It also has been decided by someone (or maybe
> > even a comittee) to spam proventesters daily with
> > "[old_testing_critpath]" messages for all three dist releases, with
> > no day to unsubscribe from that (other than leaving proventesters
> > group, which is what at least one person has threatened with, or
> > filtering those messages).
Yeah, I am not sure at all how usefull those emails are.
There are a variety of ways to see what things need testing, sending
emails to proventesters a bunch isn't likely to be a very nice one.
I've disabled this behavior in git, and will update our production
instance this week. This spam is unnecessary now that this information
is available in the updates-testing digests sent to the test list.
luke