[Vm-dev] auto updates from issue tracker now blocked (was: [Pharo-dev] Put issues from cog issue tracker into pharo issue tracker)

[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 01:58:16PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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> On 9 August 2013 13:46, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> > On 2013-08-08, at 22:43, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
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> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:59:15PM +0200, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
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> >>> Yes, clearly excessive, but isn't the transition finished?
> >>
> >> I have no idea if it is finished. Let's hope so.
> >>
> >> Note that I have not actually turned anything off, I think it's worth a day
> >> or so of discussion before changing anything.
> >>
> >>> From my point of view, the automatic updates from cog at googlecode were already
> >> sending too many trivial notifications to the list, and I was not finding it
> >> very useful. Maybe others find it helpful though. I'd be interested to hear
> >> from Eliot, Igor, or Esteban.
> >>
> >> Dave
> >
> > We should try to find a balance between information and noise. If there is no information at all, people tend to forget these facilities even exist.
> >
> > For example, if it could be restricted to announce only new bugs I think it would be a very useful resource.
> >
> 
> unfortunately, this is all what google tracker has (see attached).
> So you have all or nothing, but not something in between.
> The only way to achieve that, i think, is to write a mail filter and
> put it somewhere,
> to pass mails only with new issue/issue resolved events.
> 

A filter like that would be ideal, but I don't know how to do that. Let's try
a manual approach for now. I set cog at googlecode to be moderated, so that all
updates will be blocked from the list until approved by the moderator. This
will result in delays for updates appearing on this list, but will prevent
overloading the vm-dev list with unwanted postings.

Unfortunately, the list moderator happens to be me. I don't think I will want
to keep up with this indefinitely, but let's give it a try for now and see if
it improves the signal to noise ratio.

Dave