bugzilla messages about issues related to freebsd-ports, freebsd-multimedia, ...

[Matthias Apitz]

El día sábado, julio 11, 2020 a las 04:35:10a. m. -0700, David Wolfskill escribió:

> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 01:27:55PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > ... 
> > There is nothing written about "... and for Cc issues from bugzilla".
> > 
> > What I do not like and do not understand why this was introduced, that
> > the issue tracker bugzilla copies comments etc. in the issues to the
> > mailing-list and spams the lists with this (an example is below). This
> > way I get every day some hundred mails.
> > 
> > Why is this intention? Can it be changed? To whom I should direct this
> > complain?
> > 
> > 	matthias
> > ....
> 
> 
> That happens -- at least in the case of multimedia/ffmpeg -- because:
> 
> g1-55(13.0-C)[4] awk -F = '$1 == "MAINTAINER"' /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/Makefile
> MAINTAINER=     multimedia at FreeBSD.org
> 
> So it's merely notification to the listed "maintainer" of the port.

I know, and then the question is: why as MAINTAINER a full discussion(!)
mailing list is used?

	matthias
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