Hello Helge, On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 09:20, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Michael, > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:26:41PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > I am torn between saying thank you for all the effort you > > clearly made and saying PLEASE DON'T DO THIS! > > Ok. > > > Submitting one hundred plus bug reports at the same time > > is _very_ burdensome for an upstream maintainer. Honestly, > > if it had not been for lockdown, I might simply have ignored > > the whole series of mails. > > That would have been a pitty. > > I would have assumed that you process them at your convenience, i.e. > each when you have time. Time is always in short supply :-}. And sometime, when I queue things, they just get lost (for ever, or for a long time). > > In the future, please do not wait for huge backlog to build up > > before sending me reports. (10 reports at a time is fine; 100, > > not so much.) > > Well, in the past (i.e. 10 years) we (german) translators always said > "we should report this". But "we" always amounted to no one doing it. > We were only recording issues found. So I finally decided to proceed. I figured that the story must be something like this. So, in any case, thank you that you did the work. It is appreciated. > Since you are our biggest upstream, I started with your pages. > Intially I would have made one big bug report, but I understood this > is not requested from your side. Yes. Individual reports is best. That way, I can accept/reject/discuss each issue individually. > Since it was mostly script based (and I was working on the scripts > while preparing) they came in all at once. I could have added a > throttle, like 10 / day, of course. > > I'm still learning the process(es), so the next upstream might get a > better experience and I apologize for all the glitches I made. I do suggest at least warnin the upstream that a lot of reports are about to land... > Anyhow, I hope to report more frequent (and with much lower numbers) in > the future. > > > In any case, thank you very much for your many reports. > > Thanks from my side that you accepted and processed them. You're welcome! Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
