From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 95351 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2019 20:59:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 95335 invoked by uid 89); 10 Feb 2019 20:59:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,BODY_8BITS,GARBLED_BODY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=persons, arranged, prs, PRs X-HELO: gate.crashing.org Received: from gate.crashing.org (HELO gate.crashing.org) (63.228.1.57) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:59:07 +0000 Received: from gate.crashing.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id x1AKudeb003331; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:56:39 -0600 Received: (from segher@localhost) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id x1AKuNSr003316; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:56:23 -0600 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:59:00 -0000 From: Segher Boessenkool To: =?utf-8?B?0JTQuNC70Y/QvSDQn9Cw0LvQsNGD0LfQvtCy?= Cc: Joseph Myers , gcc-patches Subject: Re: Make clear, when contributions will be ignored Message-ID: <20190210205616.GJ14180@gate.crashing.org> References: <25a0e5620b1e8a7a831ae9660c988f5dd98aa7dd.camel@aegee.org> <20181205171121.GQ3803@gate.crashing.org> <0990b8acd4cc08f74c1bf314851a113711dbfa04.camel@aegee.org> <20190206124401.GO14180@gate.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00689.txt.bz2 Hi Dilyan, On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:45:02PM +0000, Дилян Палаузов wrote: > Do you share the opinion, that whatever can be done after receiving a reminder, can be arranged also without reminder? Yes. When people have time for it, they can trivially check what PRs are still open that they are involved in. > If yes, how do you propose to proceed, so that a no-reminders-are-necessary-state is reached? Keep things as is? Reminders already are not necessary. If you want more attention given to the bugs you are involved in, you can hire people to do that, or file reports for more interesting bugs, or make your bug reports easier to work with. Since GCC has one major release every year, handling less urgent bugs can take up to a year as well. > I read in the answer of Segher, that the purpose of reminding is not only to ping, but also to filter the ones who are > pernetrant and sending manually reminders is the means to verify, that the persons really want to make progress. It was > certainly not intentionally meant this way, but this is a possible reading. The point is that automated reminders for PRs *are spam*. Segher