From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Fri Aug  8 01:45:30 2008
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:45:30 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Bug repository awakening
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Marc Schwartz wrote:
> on 08/07/2008 05:23 PM Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>> Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
>>>>>>>>     on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:43:50 +0200 writes:
>>>>>>>>             
>>>
>>>     PD> Looks like reports from the last month are trickling
>>>     PD> in. 170 of them in incoming, but there's a lot of
>>>     PD> spam. I hope Martin's spamfilters are less leaky that
>>>     PD> ours, so that they get killed en route to r-devel....
>>>
>>> Yes, they have been *much* less leaky for quite a while:
>>>
>>> It's me as admin and Marc Schwartz as volunteer moderator,
>>> for all messages from people not subscribed to R-devel.
>>> This time (US morning), it was Marc who manually approved many
>>> dozens of messages.
>
> A lot (most) of those went to /dev/null and were added to the 
> auto-discard list so that they won't continue to be problematic in the 
> future. A little CQI for the human filters.
>
>>>  [[ ==> Please, "regular bug reporters", do subscribe to R-devel... ]]
>>>
>>> Martin Maechler, ETH Zuric
>> I still hope that your non-human filters can relieve the human ones....
>>
>> As it turned out there were 560 messages by the end of the day.  I've 
>> managed to cut that down to about 150, using brute force on the 
>> repository, and even that is mostly spam. However, the remainder will 
>> still have been forwarded to r-devel.....
>
> Peter, has there been any awakening of prior discussions with respect 
> to replacing JitterBug with Bugzilla?
>
Not really, but it is lurking all the time for various reasons. Yet 
another thing to discuss at useR, I think.
> Cheers,
>
> Marc


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[Rd] Bug repository awakening
Peter Dalgaard