Hi folks,
There is way too much automated email on this list. It's getting
ridiculous. I say this as a 'power user' who is no stranger to very
high-traffic lists.
Today I had to add this "hook" to my main client (Mutt) to will hide the
automated gunk from view. So I can at least skim the damn list!
folder-hook Fedora/devel 'limit ! (~s "ELN Report" | ~s "Branched Report" | ~s "Rawhide Report" | ~s "compose" | ~s "Meeting")'
(I know, I might miss some precious discussion that could branch out
from these mails. It's a tiny cost to pay for the skimmability gains.)
If we don't fix this deluge, expect non-power users of lists to drop out
drastically. Only a handful of those who configured their setup to hell
and back[1] might remain.
* * *
How about creating a 'fedora-notifications' or 'fedora-reports' list and
redirect them all there? Or a weekly "digest" with relevant links and
reports in a _single_ email. I'm on this list to read what other
_humans_ are talking about! I may soon have to start feeding an 'mbox'
of this list to a local LLM to get a digest of it.
[1] https://xkcd.com/1782/
Regards,
Kashyap
W dniu 17.04.2026 o 14:24, Richard Hughes pisze:> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026
at 1:03 PM Marcin Juszkiewicz
> <mjuszkiewicz(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> Filled https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459166 My PR
>> for 'gtk2' package was 5 months old. Not a single comment from the
>> maintainer.
> Well, I'm here and very active in Fedora -- I'm also not the gtk2
> maintainer, mclasen is.
I asked on devel channel in matrix and was told to start it against
anyone listed in package members.
> I'm not really sure what you're trying to achieve; are you trying to
> invoke the "non-responsive maintainer policy" for everyone in the
> commit group (that are not the maintainer of the package) just to
> get your riscv patches merged faster? If so, that's really bad --
> and you need to stop right now.
I am aware that gtk2 is a package kept because there are still some
legacy programs which someone may use. And have no upstream changes etc.
But five months for a change which take a minute to review?