Primarily because we janitors are human and the BFAV database serves for
now as a useful backup to help us keep track of what issues we have and
have not properly handled.  If we miss one then it is very easy to catch
by looking in BFAV.  Secondarily, there are still issues in BFAV that
should be handled in the old way.  To do that harvesters need to be able
to close the issue, mark them as approved, mark them as being in an
update etc.  All this relies on BFAV being able to receive new reports
by email.

However there may come a time in the not too distant future when I can
shut down the monitoring of the squeak-dev list and just monitor the
behind the scenes squeak-harvesting list.  However I don't think we are
quite ready for that yet.

Ken

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:52 -0300, Hernan Tylim wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> 
> I've seen a lot of this mails, and I am not criticizing, but I always 
> wondered.... Why don't you just shutdown the BFAV server? or at least 
> the part of it that scan and parse the mailing list ?
> 
> Regards,
> Hernán
> 

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