Please block seurer@linux.vnet.ibm.com from gcc-regression

Please block seurer@linux.vnet.ibm.com from gcc-regression

[Joseph Myers]

In the past few days, seurer@linux.vnet.ibm.com has sent half a gigabyte 
of huge messages such as 
<https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2016-04/msg03559.html> to 
gcc-regression, those messages containing no actual useful information 
about regressions caused by GCC commits.  Overseers, could you block that 
address from posting to gcc-regression until we have confirmation that the 
process sending those messages to gcc-regression has stopped and will not 
be restarted and that there are no more such messages waiting in a mail 
queue somewhere (all the messages seem to be dated Sunday, but they are 
still coming through)?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

Re: Please block seurer@linux.vnet.ibm.com from gcc-regression

[Bill Seurer]

On 04/19/16 04:56, Joseph Myers wrote:
> In the past few days, seurer@linux.vnet.ibm.com has sent half a gigabyte
> of huge messages such as
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2016-04/msg03559.html> to
> gcc-regression, those messages containing no actual useful information
> about regressions caused by GCC commits.  Overseers, could you block that
> address from posting to gcc-regression until we have confirmation that the
> process sending those messages to gcc-regression has stopped and will not
> be restarted and that there are no more such messages waiting in a mail
> queue somewhere (all the messages seem to be dated Sunday, but they are
> still coming through)?

I apologize about that.  I activated gcc 6 on our tester Sunday but 
failed to prime the source first.  That caused the tester scripts to 
loop trying to get the source and failing.

I updated the scripts yesterday to prevent this from happening in the 
future.
-- 

-Bill Seurer

Re: Please block seurer@linux.vnet.ibm.com from gcc-regression

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Bill Schmidt wrote:

> We're sorry for the problems.  Bill was updating our scripts to enable the
> gcc-6-branch for testing, and unfortunately things went massively wrong.
> This has been shut down, and we're taking several precautions to ensure
> nothing like this happens again.  There should be no further bad messages
> after the ones on Sunday, so once those are cleared up it should be safe to
> re-enable the sending email address.

Overseers, the messages are still coming through (e.g. 
<https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2016-04/msg04147.html>), so we 
still need the block until the mail queue in question has emptied.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

Re: Please block seurer@linux.vnet.ibm.com from gcc-regression

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:30:45PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
>On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Bill Schmidt wrote:
>
>> We're sorry for the problems.  Bill was updating our scripts to enable the
>> gcc-6-branch for testing, and unfortunately things went massively wrong.
>> This has been shut down, and we're taking several precautions to ensure
>> nothing like this happens again.  There should be no further bad messages
>> after the ones on Sunday, so once those are cleared up it should be safe to
>> re-enable the sending email address.
>
>Overseers, the messages are still coming through (e.g. 
><https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2016-04/msg04147.html>), so we 
>still need the block until the mail queue in question has emptied.

This email address has been blocked.

cgf