Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:52:30 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: portmgr@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnome@ is swamped in @freebsd robot noise, deterring human activity. Message-ID: <201506181352.t5IDqUuG084397@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:04:40 %2B0200." <201506171504.t5HF4e4C038694@fire.js.berklix.net>
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"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> > > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 06:33:49 +0800 > > To: FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > > Subject: Update editors/abiword > > > The maintainer timeout has long since passed, and I have not been able to > > get any feedback from freebsd-gnome@. > > gnome@freebsd feedback is unlikely, it's dieing from @freebsd robot noise ! > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2015-May/author.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2015-June/author.html > robots are: > bugzilla-noreply > pkg-fallout > portscout > linimon (aka broken ports robot) > real mails from humans are rare! 2 in May, 5 in June so far. + spam. > > Compare traffic with 10 years back: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2005-June/author.html > Lots of humans used gnome@ to co-operate back then. > > Robot owners should reduce frequency of robot excretions, > which swamp gnome@, contravening list definition: > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > This is a forum for discussions related to bring the GNOME > environment to FreeBSD. Some ports Makefiles could have an optional variable defined in bsd.port.mk Alternate # 1: MAINTAINER_TYPE= [unset] or "" or "person" Default (as before): MAINTAINER is an individual also willing to receive robot detections of problems. "list" MAINTAINER is a mail list address [with many ports]. Robots should not flood human discussion forum, detering list membership. Alternate # 2: MAINTAINER_FOR_ROBOTS= mail@address For robots to write to instead of spamming MAINTAINER list. (Also individuals to support robots, one per port, without spamming everyone in a list for every port in group). "null" Prevent robot spamming MAINTAINER list. (null could be a switch, or crontab truncated mail box) Alternate # 3 (expansion of #2) MAINTAINER_FOR_BROKEN (automatic reports from linimon@ ) MAINTAINER_FOR_BUGZILLA MAINTAINER_FOR_PKG-FALLOUT MAINTAINER_FOR_PORTSCOUT All default to unset. If set could be one per robot, email addresses to write, with the the option of "null" I ask portmgr@FreeBSD.org to consider which might be best ? I suggest # 2. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com Indent previous with "> ". Reply Below as a play script. Send plain text, Not quoted-printable, HTML, or base64.
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