Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues"

Al Viro
2022-10-02T23:04:35Z

On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 10:20:40PM +0000, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:

> Bugzilla hasn't been updated in a very long time so it's missing both
> mailing lists and individual kernel developers.
>
> AFAIK, some pieces of kernel have no appropriate mailing lists at all.
> What about that? I've no clue.

There's that file, right in the root of the source tree. Called "MAINTAINERS",
in all-caps... Could have something to do with locating maintainers, could it not?

> Opt-in will work, except I've no idea how to make it work. Mass email
> all the kernel developers and politely invite them to sign up? Most will
> simply ignore it.

Sigh... You really don't seem to appreciate just how deep a septic
tank you've jumped into with your combination of "it should be opt-out"
and "but unsubscribing takes just a minute, what are you unhappy about?!?"

Maybe you are not using email a lot, but for just about everyone who does...
We have heard that. Many, many times. From many sources - spammers,
"legitimate" companies' marketing departments, etc.

And you keep moving along the same track - the usual reaction of some
company after having pulled back a bloody stump and enjoyed the pile of
explanations of the reasons why opt-out is *NOT* *ACCEPTABLE*, *EVER*
is along the lines of "OK, we'll just spam everyone in our database once
and ask them to opt-in - that must be OK, right?"