http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/ports/gen/Mk/bsd.port.mk.MAINTAINER_FOR_ROBOTS.no_customise From owner-freebsd-ports@@@freebsd.org Thu Jun 18 15:55:09 2015 Message-Id: <201506181352.t5IDqUuG084397@@@fire.js.berklix.net> To: portmgr@@@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome@ is swamped in @freebsd robot noise, deterring human activity. From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultants, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:04:40 +0200." <201506171504.t5HF4e4C038694@@@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:52:30 +0200 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: FreeBSD ports MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > From: Ben Woods > > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 06:33:49 +0800 > > To: FreeBSD ports , freebsd-gnome@@@freebsd.org > > Subject: Update editors/abiword > > > The maintainer timeout has long since passed, and I have not been able to > > get any feedback from freebsd-gnome@@@. > > gnome@@@freebsd feedback is unlikely, it's dieing from @@@freebsd robot noise ! > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2015-May/author.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2015-June/author.html > robots are: > bugzilla-noreply > pkg-fallout > portscout > linimon (aka broken ports robot) > real mails from humans are rare! 2 in May, 5 in June so far. + spam. > > Compare traffic with 10 years back: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2005-June/author.html > Lots of humans used gnome@@@ to co-operate back then. > > Robot owners should reduce frequency of robot excretions, > which swamp gnome@@@, contravening list definition: > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > This is a forum for discussions related to bring the GNOME > environment to FreeBSD. Some ports Makefiles could have an optional variable defined in bsd.port.mk Alternate # 1: MAINTAINER_TYPE= [unset] or "" or "person" Default (as before): MAINTAINER is an individual also willing to receive robot detections of problems. "list" MAINTAINER is a mail list address [with many ports]. Robots should not flood human discussion forum, detering list membership. Alternate # 2: MAINTAINER_FOR_ROBOTS= mail@@@address For robots to write to instead of spamming MAINTAINER list. (Also individuals to support robots, one per port, without spamming everyone in a list for every port in group). "null" Prevent robot spamming MAINTAINER list. (null could be a switch, or crontab truncated mail box) Alternate # 3 (expansion of #2) MAINTAINER_FOR_BROKEN (automatic reports from linimon@@@ ) MAINTAINER_FOR_BUGZILLA MAINTAINER_FOR_PKG-FALLOUT MAINTAINER_FOR_PORTSCOUT All default to unset. If set could be one per robot, email addresses to write, with the the option of "null" I ask portmgr@@@FreeBSD.org to consider which might be best ? I suggest # 2. Cheers, Julian