[needs-packaging] NewGenLib - integrated library management system (ILS)

Please don't mark bugs as affecting backports until there is actually a package to backport. It generates a lot of unnecessary mail to developers.

Hi Iain,

I am so sorry - I didn't realize that backports were not meant to be requested if the package was not already in the repository for a later version of Ubuntu.

I have set just about all the other backport requests to "incomplete" since I can neither delete them or bookmark them for use in future.
Hopefully that will save the launchpad admins a lot of trouble.

But now I had been having trouble logging on and remaining at the launchpad site.
So it has been difficult checking for loose ends.

One of the admins sent me a message calling my submissions "Spam".
Yes - there were a lot of them, and yes - they all were submitted in quick succession.
But I did not do this with any malicious intent that is implied by the use of the word "Spam"

I went to a lot of effort to find, collect, and submit those packages,
and it is very disheartening to have these problems.

I am sorry.
But the system has not made it easy to fix the problem.

I hope to soon be certain that I have sorted the respective submissions and marked then as "incomplete".
I also hope to send an email to you and some other admins,
because this experience has some lessons.

Thank you.
Tree

I was the one who requested your ban, due to the massive amounts of spam to our trackers, and the resulting backscatter of email to every backports developer (I believe at least 400 emails if not more were sent). The resulting influx of now invalid bugs has made the trackers you spammed (and it is spam) unusable since we can't easily find valid requests among all the garbage, and I've asked LP staff to delete all the bugs you filed against our trackers.

It is rude to file so many bugs without discussing it with the project administrators, especially if there was a chance if these bugs were invalid. Furthermore, there is a VERY clear criteria for what qualifies for a backport and what doesn't, and it quite clear that you didn't bother to check the page on the proper way to request a backport. I ask that you please stop touching any bugs on our trackers; we will close these bugs ourselves, and ask that you do not file any backport requests until you are clearly familiar with the process. Taking the [needs-packaging] bug, and subscribing it to the backports trackers is NOT the way to request a backport!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports - Please read this.

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 14:02 +0000, Michael Casadevall wrote:
> I was the one who requested your ban, due to the massive amounts of spam
> to our trackers, and the resulting backscatter of email to every
> backports developer (I believe at least 400 emails if not more were
> sent). The resulting influx of now invalid bugs has made the trackers
> you spammed (and it is spam) unusable since we can't easily find valid
> requests among all the garbage, and I've asked LP staff to delete all
> the bugs you filed against our trackers.
>
> It is rude to file so many bugs without discussing it with the project
> administrators, especially if there was a chance if these bugs were
> invalid. Furthermore, there is a VERY clear criteria for what qualifies
> for a backport and what doesn't, and it quite clear that you didn't
> bother to check the page on the proper way to request a backport. I ask
> that you please stop touching any bugs on our trackers; we will close
> these bugs ourselves, and ask that you do not file any backport requests
> until you are clearly familiar with the process. Taking the [needs-
> packaging] bug, and subscribing it to the backports trackers is NOT the
> way to request a backport!
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports - Please read this.
>
> ** Changed in: gutsy-backports
> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: feisty-backports
> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
Michael,

Are all of these backport tasks being invalidated? If so, do you want
some help? There's quite a substantial number to go through.

Cheers
Chris

Hi Guys,

I am so sorry, for All this trouble.

I am putting together a more in-depth message.
In brief -

I had gone through yesterday, and marked the backports bug reports as "incomplete" (as promised above),
so a search of my bug reports marked "backport" and also "incomplete" should help make it easier to find them.

I did this as per
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/252522
Chris Coulson
"Setting backport tasks incomplete as there is no package to backport yet".

Shall I go through and mark them as "invalid"?
There's about 180 programs requested for backports, in pairs of Feisty and Gutsy making about 360.
Since they are in pairs they can both be done at once.
Let me know , and I will get onto this at once?

So very Sorry.
Tree

Not currently in Ubuntu or Debian
License GPLv3
Changing from 'New' to 'Confirmed'. Recommend Wishlist