Re: Planet Debian revisions

From	Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: Planet Debian revisions
Date	2019-01-03 17:10 +0100
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Quoting Roberto C. Sánchez (2019-01-03 16:33:51)
> I have built up quite a backlog of email, so I did not see that the
> discussion had effectively concluded when I wrote my message.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 04:25:14PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > On 15271 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > 
> > > Probably better to say something like, "When a blog is removed, 
> > > the committer should send a direct email message to the author of 
> > > the removed content explaining the reason for the removal."
> > 
> > Ah please not.
> > 
> > > That keeps potentially loaded statements from being recorded in 
> > > commit message forever.  It also allows the author something 
> > > perhaps more complete than a short sentence fragment in a commit 
> > > message upon which to base a decision on how to proceed.
> > 
> > And I sometimes remove blogs for them just going 5xx. A commit msg 
> > is fine.
> > 
> I still think an email to the author would be a good thing in that 
> case. I have had parts of my site stop functioning and known of it for 
> some time.  An email from someone telling me that it is broken is 
> something I consider to be helpful.

I find it problematic to _promise_ an email notice upon removal.

Sure it is a nice gesture to notify, but I see no reason to codify that.


 - Jonas

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Planet Debian revisions Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2018-12-30 18:10 +0100
  Re: Planet Debian revisions Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike@debian.org> - 2018-12-31 16:10 +0100
    Re: Planet Debian revisions Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2019-01-01 21:30 +0100
      Re: Planet Debian revisions Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2019-01-01 21:40 +0100
        Re: Planet Debian revisions Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2019-01-02 13:20 +0100
          Re: Planet Debian revisions Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2019-01-02 16:50 +0100
            Re: Planet Debian revisions Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike@debian.org> - 2019-01-02 17:10 +0100
              Re: Planet Debian revisions Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2019-01-02 17:40 +0100
            Re: Planet Debian revisions Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-02 17:50 +0100
            Re: Planet Debian revisions Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2019-01-02 19:00 +0100
              Re: Planet Debian revisions Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2019-01-02 22:50 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2019-01-02 23:20 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions "Benj. Mako Hill" <mako@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 01:40 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 08:30 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 08:40 +0100
              Re: Planet Debian revisions Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 01:40 +0100
            Re: Planet Debian revisions Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> - 2019-01-02 23:30 +0100
              Re: Planet Debian revisions Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 00:00 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 16:10 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 16:30 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-01-03 16:40 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 17:00 +0100
            Re: Planet Debian revisions Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 16:20 +0100
              Re: Planet Debian revisions Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 16:30 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 16:40 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-01-03 17:10 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 18:00 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 18:00 +0100
              Re: Planet Debian revisions Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-01-03 16:40 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 19:20 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-01-04 15:30 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 16:40 +0100
              Re: Planet Debian revisions Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 19:20 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-01-04 16:10 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions [and 1 more messages] Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-01-04 18:30 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions [and 1 more messages] Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 18:50 +0100
                Re: Planet Debian revisions [and 1 more messages] Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-01-05 20:50 +0100

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