Sebastien Bacher wrote: > [I was not subscribed to the list and didn't get the previous mails so I'm > replying with a new message] > > Hi, > > I've been pointed to this discussion on the list and want to give some > explanations about the bug flood which happened this week. > > That sort of bug flood is what is happening at the moment when an > application face a crasher and is mainly due to the efficient of the new > xmlrpc bug-buddy. > (that means you are not likely to get 200 bugs/day every day and there > is no reason to panic) > The issue is known and the bugsquad team has some plans to make the > situation better. You can read the blog entry Elijah wrote previous week > about the topic: > http://blogs.gnome.org/view/newren/2006/09/30/0 > Great to hear that someone is already working in that issue.
> The particular issue which generated all those bugs was a pygtk 2.10.2 > bug. I'm the one which uploaded the broken version to edgy and I'm sorry > I didn't spot it before uploading (the pygtk programs I played with were > mostly working fine (pygtk-demo, update-manager, etc) and I'm not a > deskbar-applet user) > So it wasn't a deskbar-applet bug, right? > Somebody mentioned blocking bugs from Ubuntu. I don't think that's a > good idea. If you look at the bug you will notice some are from Gentoo. > It happens than FC6 and Mandriva 2007 are frozen at the moment and > didn't update to pygtk 2.10.2 and than Ubuntu is having a bunch of > enthusiastic GNOME users which probably explain than most of the bugs > came from edgy on that issue. It could have happened to any distribution > and it's not likely to happen again soon (pygtk don't happen every week, > edgy is mainly frozen and I'll make sure to test deskbar-applet before > uploading pygtk updates from now) so let's rather move on that issue and > encourage the bugsquad team to come with some good anti-flood solution > on the bugzilla side ;) > You're absolutly right. It just suggested that as a temporary solution to stop the flood. I did not want to ban edgy from bugzilla. Let's see how this issue developes and hopefully the bugzilla team provides a solution soon. -- Greetings, Sebastian Pölsterl _______________________________________________ deskbar-applet-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskbar-applet-list
