Re: new lilypond-auto mailing list

[Janek Warchoł]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:11:46AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> So instead of surprising volunteers by giving them more information than
>> expected we give them less information than expected?
>
> Bug squad members shouldn't be reading tracker messages anyway.
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/bug-squad-setup
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> 5. 2. Any other email either from, or CC’d to,
> address@hidden
> should go into a separate bug-ignore folder. Alternately, you may
> automatically delete these emails.
>
> You will not read these emails as part of your Bug Squad duties.
> If you are curious, go ahead and read them later, but it does not
> count as Bug Squad work.
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>
> I'm serious about wanting this to be a 20-minute-per-week job.
> I seriously think it's possible if people follow the guidelines
> strictly (ok, so then they'd be "rules" rather than "guidelines").
> However, humans are harder to program than python or C.  After
> years of failure with regards to the duration, it's time to try
> another tactic.  I've been thinking about this for years.
>
> The main reason I did it now is that Patchy will be sending more
> info for the automatic countdowns, and should be sending more info
> for the staging-merge, so I want a good place to send that stuff.

sounds reasonable to me.
Janek